Mayor Attempts to Take Over Los Angeles Schools

by Claudio Sanchez, NPR
April 18, 2006

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is promoting a controversial fix for the city's struggling public school system. He wants to put the bureaucracy under his control. Villaraigosa says this will bring more accountability to Los Angeles public schools. But his opponents call it a power grab.

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