Charter School Industry’s Data Plan Goes Bust

“I think that it is incredibly ironic…that the same people who have resisted charter school transparency are now the ones demanding [public schools] to be transparent.”

- LAUSD Board Member Jackie Goldberg

The School Performance Framework (SPF) should have been killed off the moment it was revealed that Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board Member Nick Melvoin had colluded with the charter school industry to craft the resolution that lead to its creation. Instead, Melvoin pushed on, spending public funds to create a biased framework and populating focus groups with people from his own personal mailing lists. That all came to an end last Tuesday when the LAUSD Board voted 6–1 to “suspend implementation of the SPF and any launching or utilization of the SPF — including any use of stars, scores, or any other rating system — in or on any District platforms”. Melvoin was the sole dissenting vote.