Hundreds of parents, students, teachers, and community leaders filled the Board Room at the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) headquarters on August 25, 2009, to support a new resolution – “Public School Choice: A New Way at LAUSD” – that invites qualified operators to run up to fifty of the district’s newly-built schools, and its more than two hundred low-performing schools. The motion, which passed with overwhelming support, will create a process for ensuring strong instructional programs at each of the newly-constructed campuses, and produce transformational plans for the lowest-performing schools.