#AnotherDayAnotherCharterScandal

As Enrollment Dwindles, A Charter School Seeks To Build More Space

Bright Star’s Valor Academy contributes to a charter school building boom financed by taxpayers in the midst of declining student enrollment.

“We hope that one day, we’ll be gathering to commemorate the opening of the newest Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument and Community Park in North Hills.”

- North Hills Preservation Consortium

As covered in a detailed article by Tracy Abbott Cook, the United States is in the 14th year of a decrease in the growth of its population. The LAUSD’s Beaudry Bureaucrats have known about this demographic shift since at least April 2006, when they noted that “the number of children being born in LA County…had been dropping since 1990.” The decline in the number of school-age children continues today and is not predicted to reverse any time in the near future.

Despite knowing “that enrollment would peak between 2000–2005 and then decline,” the LAUSD, led by Board Member Monica Garcia, engaged in a building boom. Instead of…