Camping for Magnet School Slots to Continue

A school board vote on a controversial plan to do away with parent camping at magnet schools and replace them with a lottery has been postponed until next year.

Board members said they will seek advice from the state attorney general on the legality of the current policy and get parents’ views.

Camping to ensure children’s enrollment in sought-after magnet schools has been a fixture in Santa Ana for decades. But last spring, some officials said allowing hundreds of parents to sleep for days in tents outside school grounds might violate state laws requiring random admission to the district’s magnet schools.