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Failing Charter School Will Continue To Operate

Ignoring the LAUSD and its staff, the Los Angeles County Office of Education renewed KIPP Sol’s charter petition for another five years.

“Closure of the charter school is in the best interest of pupils.”

– LACOE Staff

Going into the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) Board meeting on April 1, 2025, the KIPP chain of publicly funded private schools already had three strikes in its attempt to renew the charter of KIPP Sol. First, the Charter School Division of the LAUSD had looked at the school’s declining results and recommended that it be closed. In January, the LAUSD Board voted to approve this recommendation. The chain quickly appealed to the County and, upon review of the data, concluded that “KIPP Sol failed to meet or make sufficient progress toward meeting standards that provide a benefit to pupils of the school.”

Before the LACOE Board voted on KIPP’s appeal, I sent the following comments to its members detailing some of the issues at KIPP Sol:

Today, you will consider overturning the LAUSD’s decision to deny the renewal of KIPP Sol. After a…