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Getting Half The Job Done

The LAUSD School Board votes to deny Ivy Bound Academy’s charter renewal but purposely excludes its questionable demographics as a reason.

“Criterion 3: Is the charter school serving all pupils who wish to attend, or does the charter school have substantial fiscal or governance issues? (Ed. Code, § 47607(e).)

These criteria have been determined not to be bases for denial.”

– LAUSD Charter School Division

In its marketing, Ivy Bound Academy promotes the charter school as a “first stop” on the way to Harvard. With the academic performances listed on the California School’s Dashboard, it looks like the trip has been abandoned for most of Ivy’s students. The school is rated in the Red (very low) for English Language Arts and the Orange (low) for Mathematics. Even worse, the performance declined in both categories from the previous year showing a school on the wrong trajectory.