#AnotherDayAnotherCharterScandal

The Attempted Assassination Of A Public School District

After losing re-election, former board member, Caprice Young, supported by the charter school industry, went on to profit from the failures she herself set in motion.

Caprice Young from her Learn4Life profile

“I was the president of the LA Unified school district and I had more power than anyone in all of public education in Los Angeles.”

-Caprice Young

The charter industry long ago figured out that the best way to keep their schools from the prying eyes of proper oversight was to control the entity charged with being their watchdog. Eli Broad and his fellow privatizers have, therefore, spent millions of dollars to elect school board members whose allegiance has not been to the vast majority of students who attend Los Angeles’ public schools, but to the charter operators whose privately run schools are funded by the public. The rogue’s gallery of board members in Broad’s pocket includes former and current board members who made it easier for failing charter schools to expand while pursuing policies that harmed LAUSD students.