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Charter School Regulators Fail Again
A charter’s sudden and chaotic closure draws attention to the fact that these publicly funded private schools lack adequate oversight.
- Charter school parent
Just like any other day, parents dropped off their children at the Public Policy Charter School in South L.A. with the expectation that the publicly funded school would keep them safe while providing them with an education. Unfortunately, there were no classes provided for their students earlier this week. Instead, there was chaos and confusion. Parents received “frantic” phone calls from their children telling them that classes had been canceled. Police were called to the scene “following reports of a scuffle between kids and an adult.”