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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.

Carl J. Petersen
Age of Awareness
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4 min readSep 16, 2021

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My daughter did call me while I was at work and informed me that some people, she didn’t specify if it was staff or the board or anybody. She just said ‘some people came in cursing at us and they pushed and shoved two kids.’

- 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.

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Carl J. Petersen
Carl J. Petersen

Written by Carl J. Petersen

Parent, special education advocate and former LAUSD School Board candidate. Still fighting for the children. www.ChangeTheLAUSD.com

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