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Will These Charter Schools Escape Accountability?

Three failing charter schools are appealing to the County after the LAUSD School Board took the rare step of rejecting their renewals.

“our school’s math performance makes a compelling case for renewing our charter”

– KIPP Sol, whose students scored 90.8 points below the state’s standard

The Charter School Industry spent millions of dollars trying to get Los Angeles voters to give them a school board that would refuse to hold their publicly funded private schools accountable for the public money they receive. Fortunately for students, the election results were not as charter schools had hoped. Instead of seating more clones of Nick Melvoin, the Board now has a majority of members who campaigned by supporting public schools.

Although they have a mandate to finally clamp down on the rampant mismanagement, corruption, and academic failure throughout the Charter School Industry, the current board has taken a more conservative approach, renewing the vast majority of schools that have submitted renewals of their charters. The four rejected at the…