Bid to Give Compton Control of Schools Fails
Legislators this week rejected a proposal to return the Compton Unified School District to local control.
Despite an eleventh-hour push by the bill’s sponsor, Assemblyman Carl Washington (D-Paramount), the Assembly’s Education Committee voted 8 to 4 late Wednesday evening to kill the plan.
The state took control of the district in 1993, when school officials reported a $20-million shortfall. The district is expected to return to local control eventually. But some residents contend that the state is a poor steward and want the 30,000-student district returned immediately.
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