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Los Angeles parents will be able to initiate major reforms at low-performing individual schools, rather than waiting for the school district to make changes, the Los Angeles Times reports.

This new parental power has emerged as part of a school-control resolution that allows groups inside and outside the Los Angeles Unified School District to take over campuses. Supt. Ramon C. Cortines has included 12 underachieving schools and 18 new campuses in the process, but the parent option could add others to the list, especially in future years.

Under Cortines’ plan, a majority of parents at a school could trigger reforms at a local campus. Parents whose students are matriculating from one school to another also could take part. Parents, Cortines said, “have a right to be involved in the process.”

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