Parents taking fundraising into their own hands.

Byline: Dana Bartholomew

May 23--STUDIO CITY -- A limo ride to the "American Idol" final. A tour down Wisteria Lane with "Desperate Housewife" Teri Hatcher. A signed KISS guitar.

Such Hollywood must-haves prompted more than 600 guests to pony up well over $100,000 last weekend at a Carpenter Avenue Elementary School dinner-dance fundraiser auction.

Each year, Carpenter parents raise nearly $300,000 for school enrichment programs -- becoming fundraising kings among a growing number of Los Angeles parent booster clubs working to pay for extra teachers, computers and amenities.

While hundreds of thousands in federal Title 1 funds pay to enrich schools in needy areas, such money is not available to campuses like Carpenter, in high-income Studio City.

So parents have gone the extra mile to raise the money, hire more teachers and often manage their own school enrichment programs -- effectively creating a public-private school hybrid.

"This is not your run-of-the-mill school," said Jeryl Brivic, co-president of Parents for Carpenter, a nonprofit booster for the south-of-Ventura Boulevard public school.

"The parent…