Former Los Angeles school board president Caprice Young, who warmed the hearts of education reformers during her four years in office and accomplished more than anyone expected with that sprawling, balky school system, has agreed to head a newly formed organization that will support the 400+ charter schools in California and help others get started. The as-yet-unnamed group will merge several existing organizations, including the California Network of Education Charters (CANEC), in the hopes of providing charter schools with better representation before state policy makers and local districts, who seek to extend the restrictive regulations that California charters now labor under.
"Former trustee Caprice Young to lead charter school group," by Erika Hayasaki, Los Angeles Times, July 22, 2003