Transparency

What Is The School District Hiding?

Are charter schools in Los Angeles also affected by declining enrollment? The LAUSD Charter School Division will not release the information.

“A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

As part of its oversight responsibilities, the Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) Charter School Division (CSD) is supposed to collect enrollment information from the charter schools under its jurisdiction. Every year the department summarizes this information in a “3-Year Analysis of Independent Charter School Norm Enrollment Versus Enrollment per Approved Petition.”

The information contained in this report is vital to anyone who is affected by charter schools. As an example, parents considering enrolling their child in one of these publicly funded private schools need access to this data to help determine the financial viability of the organization as an enrollment that is…