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Why blow up something that's improving? Rome wasn't built in a day.

Lee Finnie, parent of three students enrolled at McKinley Elementary school in Compton, Calif. — noting the school's rising test scores and new principal as a reasons not to convert the school into a charter school.

Lee Finnie, parent of three students enrolled at McKinley Elementary school in Compton, Calif. — noting the school's rising test scores and new principal as a reasons not to convert the school into a charter school.

Andy Kim is a former GOVERNING staff writer.