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Charter School Division Finally Provides An Update
In the first update in over ten months, the LAUSD provides seven-month-old information showing it is still owed $3,856,851 in past-due fees.
“Thank you for your question. The website has been updated with more recent information that includes the 2022–23 school year. Additional updates will be posted periodically.”
– LAUSD Charter School Division
Despite assurances by José J. Cole-Gutiérrez that “approximately every month” the LAUSD would post “the over-allocation reimbursement amounts owed by each charter school,” the District had not posted an update since June 30, 2023. At that time records showed these publicly funded private schools owed the public school students of Los Angeles $3,708,006.
On May 6, 2024, the Charter School Division finally published an update to this data on their website. According to this spreadsheet, as of September 30, 2023, Los Angeles Charter Schools had paid $1,991,105 for taking more space than they were entitled to under PROP-39. LAUSD policy specifies that 90% of…
