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The L.A. teachers union leadership is angry that the district has offered space to more than three dozen public charter schools as part of a settlement of a lawsuit challenging the LAUSD's lagging efforts to share its facilities under Proposition 39. "This has to do with a bad law, and instead of the district fighting this they chose to make a settlement that will impact the educational programs at the host schools by taking away precious space," said A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles. In addition to rallying parents, teachers and community-based organizations, union leaders to lobby legislators about changing the public charter law. Caprice Young, leader of the state's Public Charter Schools Association, said the union leaders' campaign is motivated by fear and not concern for students' welfare. "Duffy is just frightened that the teachers on those campuses are going to realize that they don't have to be confined to the rule-bound system that they're currently working under," she said.
Source: Los Angeles Daily News
Date: 04/18/2008
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