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Los Angeles School District Dodged A Bullet

Graciela Ortiz, the Charter School supported candidate in last November’s LAUSD BD5 election is under investigation in a corruption probe.

“The lawsuit alleges city officials colluded with Efren Martinez, owner of Unified Consulting Services, to use the ‘coffers of Huntington Park as their own personal piggy bank.’”

– Los Angeles Daily News

The popular narrative is that the current LAUSD School Board is anti-charter schools. In reality, very few of these publicly funded private schools are ever held accountable for their misdeeds. Compared to Charter School shill Nick Melvoin, who once voted to renew the charter of a school where only 3.26% of the students met state math standards, anyone asking probing questions may seem overly strict. Still, the current Board only takes action when cases of fiscal mismanagement, failed academic performance, or incompetence are too striking to ignore. They are even too timid to ask the head of the Charter School Division why he wiped away $7,678,022 of charter school debt without any explanation.