Melvoin Watch
Dear Betsy DeVos:
LAUSD School Board Member Nick Melvoin wrote to Trump’s Education Secretary seeking funds to expand a charter school that is draining resources from LA schools.
“More students across the great City of Los Angeles should be afforded the opportunity to attend a CWC [Citizens of the World] LA school”
- Nick Melvoin
As a member of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) School Board, Nick Melvoin is paid $125,000 a year to represent students in district-run public schools. This did not stop him from writing a letter on behalf of a privately run charter school to Betsy DeVos seeking a grant that would help it expand. This proposed expansion would reduce the number of students attending the schools Melvoin is supposed to represent, depriving public school students of funding and diminishing the educational services that they receive.
To add insult to injury, the charter school chain that Melvoin was representing was Citizens of the World, which operates five franchises within the district. The West Valley site has a parasitic relationship with Shirley Avenue Elementary School where…
