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Another One Bites The Dust
Who will answer for the wasted education funds as Valiente College Preparatory Charter School announces its closure?
“You took me for everything that I had
– Queen
As Los Angeles students prepared to return to school at the end of the Summer break, families at the North Valley Military Institute (NVMI) were in for a rude awakening. The charter school’s administration had rejected the LAUSD’s offer of space under PROP-39 the previous April but continued to tell parents that a new campus would be ready in time to start classes. Ignoring the NMVI’s impending collapse, the Los Angeles County Office of Education’s (LACOE) regulators did nothing to ensure parents were warned to make alternative arrangements. They even allowed the school to hold its orientation session for new students. When Mark Ryan announced the school would close one week into the school year, families were left scrambling, their children behind their peers in their new schools.
To the credit of Valiente College Preparatory Charter School’s administrators, the families at that school are being given a lot more warning about…
