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Charter School Hatches Plan To Avoid Oversight

Citizens of the World will open a franchise “adjacent” to Culver City where its operations will be subject to LAUSD rules that are more lax.

“The Board may revoke a charter whenever it finds, through a showing of substantial evidence, that the charter school has…failed to meet or pursue any of the student outcomes identified in the charter.”

- Culver City Unified School District

While the LAUSD put a former California Charter School Association employee in charge of its Charter School Division, the school board in Culver City has taken a more proactive approach towards protecting the public school students that it represents. In a Comprehensive Plan that was adopted in 2008, this smaller district lays out rules that charter schools must follow in order to operate within Culver City. Had the LAUSD enforced similar rules during the past decade, the Citizens of the World nationwide chain of charter schools would have been forced to operate in a more ethical manner. The bad practices that…