Which way will California go on school choice?

It’s a tale of two school visions, both unfolding within days of each other:
On one hand, you have California’s largest school district, the Los Angeles Unified School District, settling a teachers’ strike by blaming charter schools for its own economic woes and seeking a moratorium on their growth. The eleventh-hour action was agreed upon by a school board subjected to the pressures of a powerful teachers’ union intent on pointing the finger at the rapid growth of indepe