LA school board calls for moratorium on new local charter schools

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles school officials made good on a deal with the teachers union Tuesday, bringing forward and passing a resolution that calls for a local moratorium on new charter schools until their impact can be studied.

The resolution is nonbinding for state officials, but it was vigorously opposed by charter supporters - more than 1,000 turned out to protest at district headquarters. The resolution was one product of a deal to end this month's six-day teachers' strike.

Earlier in the same meeting Tuesday, the Los Angeles Board of Education unanimously approved a contract with the teachers' union, despite a warning from an oversight agency that the costs of it are "unsustainable."

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