#AnotherDayAnotherCharterScandal

This Isn’t Wright

Without input from the community, the LAUSD announces that it will hand off a public school building to a charter, displacing 510 students.

“every child has a right to attend a high-quality Sustainable Community School in their neighborhood.”

- UTLA

Growing up in New York, my elementary school was the center of the community. After school and on the weekends we would spend time on the playground. My Boy Scout troop met Wednesday nights in the lunchroom and I played little league baseball on the school’s fields. During the summer, the town would use the school for a day camp program.

The idea of bolstering neighborhood schools so that they could be more like the one from my childhood was a central pillar of the demands made by United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) leading up to the strike in 2019. The community schools model leverages “public schools to become hubs of educational, recreational, cultural, health and civic partnerships, improving the education of children in the community and furthering the revitalization of the entire community.” In addition to changing the approach of education to…