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The assigning of space to a purpose other than teaching could prove problematic in the district's ongoing negotiations with independently operated charter schools.

Charter proponents have said all available school spaces should be set aside for charters in need of classrooms.

The parent center was showcased in the same week that the Board of Education ignored its own process for involving parents in the naming of Los Angeles Central High School No. 9.

The $232-million arts high school on Grand Avenue downtown will be named for recently retired Supt. Ramon C. Cortines, the school board unanimously decided this week.

At the same meeting, veteran parent leaders complained about school officials not following legal guidelines for including them in district decision-making. A few even threatened legal action.

Several years ago, the district disbanded some parent advisory committees.

Parent Judy Haft said she noticed some board members appeared to pay little attention as parents protested the naming of the high school; two had stepped out of the meeting, she said.

"After our group spoke, I watched in utter dismay the behavior of the board as the remaining speakers expressed themselves or poured out their hearts," Haft said. "What a joke."

Some officials have said they want to diminish the impact of "professional parents" who dominate committees, sometimes long after their children no longer attend district schools.

There has been much debate about how to get more parents involved in education. Some experts see the key element as direct one-to-one participation in a child's learning.

Others talk of the need and right of parents to have an actual say in the governance of a school and political power within the school system.

"This is an awful lot of money to put into a specialized room that is not invariably connected to instruction," said district parent and former school board member David Tokofsky. "The real issue is not parent centers; it's customer service.

"It’s not whether you put all the parents in a room. It’s whether anyone who wants to reach out to a school is responded to the way we have come to expect and demand customer service from Jack in the Box or Toyota."

The school board recently did away with allowing parents to vote on school-reform plans for individual campuses, directing Supt. John Deasy to come up with a better way to involve parents in the process.

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Photo: A former one-room schoolhouse from 1876 has been refurbished as a parent center at a Vernon elementary school. Credit: Lydia Ramos / Los Angeles Unified School District

If you only spend one or two nights in Houston for an unexpected business trip, where should you go? What should you see? And perhaps most important: Where should you drink?

This is part of a larger piece I'm doing for Outlaw on nightlife in American cities that are not New York or L.A. (because America has precisely four other top-notch cities that get less press, including Houston).

Beginning: My Friday afternoon started off by meeting up with Mary Rambin, a Houston-based lifestyle and fashion blogger without equal.

She met me at Hotel ZaZa, the tastefully eccentric hotel I'm staying at this weekend in Houston's museum district. Cool features include a fairly massive marble desk, plush robe (I felt like a hungover Gordon Gekko when I checked my e-mail this morning), free Wi-Fi, and a Cadillac Escalade "house car" that will take you anywhere within a 5 mile radius of the hotel, and will blast Hot 95.7 if you ask politely.

We checked out Cru, a laid-back wine bar with good pizza and a wide range of wine "flights" to choose from. I downed all three offerings instantly like a barbarian in a Capital One commercial, which is a testament to how smooth my pinot noir flight was. (Ask for Flight #12 when you go there.)

She also took me to the original Goode Company for barbeque, which lived up to the hype. I'll be back before I fly out this evening -- partially because I know the aroma of a bbq sandwich from Goode Co. will make every other passenger jealous, and it could become a crucial in-flight bargaining chip. Leverage, my boy. "Say, do you mind if I borrow those noise-canceling headphones you have on? You can have what's left of this."

Middle: Shortly before parting ways with my gracious Southern day-time host, disaster struck: I learned that my night-time guide -- another Texas native -- had to cancel on account of an unexpected "pre-Father's Day event" aboard her dad's "yacht" in another city. Umm, alright. (Original observation: People in Texas have money.)

This put me in an awkward spot: I was here to crack Houston's nightlife code, and without a Texan by my side, I'd wind up downing Bud Light at an Applebee's. 

Fortune smiled upon me, though, when I remembered that I had another friend living in Houston. I messaged her on Facebook and she was thrilled to help me out on my mission.

End: We went on a wild tour of Houston's drinking hot spots, purposefully avoiding "douchebag clubs." When you put it that way, I told her, I guess I don't want to check out the night clubs! (I get my fill of Ed Hardy shirts, testosterone, Jager shots, and ice-cold female rejection in my local Vegas night clubs anyway.)

The highlights from last night in Houston included an amazing wine bar called 13 Celsius, which keeps and serves all of its wines at precisely 13 degrees Celsius (supposedly the correct temperature; I'll be forwarding this article to my mom when it posts, subject line FYI).

The vibe was cool/young professional, without being pretentious. People were open and mingled freely with strangers. The owner told me the bar has been open for five years, and has thrived solely on word of mouth from locals. I believe it.

Anvil was after that, rated by various magazines as one of the best cocktail bars in America, a reputation which it deserves.

The bartender was talkative and friendly, giving me a verbal Wikipedia entry of the bar's history and unexpected successes. Most important, he was passionate about the art of making drinks -- a growing rarity among today's soda-gun and vodka slingers. (Anvil does not serve vodka.)

The bar is doing a "Summer of the South" selection of Southern inspired cocktails. As a menu explains, "Today's modern cocktail resurgence tends to emphasize urban speakeasies and Yankee cocktails. Secession anyone? Sure, we admire our Northern colleagues, but it's about time other drinking cultures get a little respect."

I'll drink to that -- always neat to see a bar with a mission statement.

The night ended with a brief jaunt through Etro Lounge next door, which was described to me as "like walking through an old video game." It definitely feels like a club from the 1980s, but in a good way. Think Adventureland.

Customers were ready to party, on the younger side, but thankfully a couple of old dudes filtered in. Their presence made me feel more at home. 

Shortly thereafter everything closed for the night (I was surprised to learn that bars close at 2 a.m. in Houston).

Today my host plans to show me some legitimately cultural day-time things here in the museum district, so more to come...

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