Crying out for choices, crying out for innovation

In Los Angeles yesterday, the board of education voted to make Birmingham High School the city’s fourth conversion charter. School board member and BHS alum Tamar Galatzan voted for conversion, reported the Los Angeles Times today. "My community is crying out for choices," she said. "My community is crying out for innovation."

But she also lamented that the LAUSD is unable to foster innovation in schools that aren’t charters. "We tell schools, 'Sorry, you have to leave to innovate.'" Read more in the Los Angeles Times.