#AnotherDayAnotherCharterScandal

Providing Special Education Is Not Optional

NVMI’s management announces new plans for next year and says that they may ignore IEPs and may not offer classes for those with severe needs.

“If we have enough students enroll to make these [special day program] classes viable, NVMI will certainly offer them.”

– North Valley Military Institute

Mark Ryan, the North Valley Military Institute’s (NVMI) “Superintendent,” is the Ralph Kramden of charter school operators, bouncing between schemes to keep the failing school afloat. Earlier this year he was floating a grand plan to move the school to the flood control basin in the Sepulveda Pass, claiming that all he needed was an executive order from the President of the United States to make it happen. He even traveled to Washington D.C. to lobby for the plan, even though he previously claimed to already have the support of the area’s entire Congressional delegation.

Apparently, Mr. Ryan’s trip to Washington was a sobering experience as his tune has changed considerably. Instead of just needing an executive order to be issued, Ryan has now conceded that converting the school from a charter to a Department of Defense Education Academy will be “a lengthy process involving the need for Congress to…