#AnotherDayAnotherCharterScandal

He Lied

The LAUSD Charter School Division Director admits that the law never required him to take away space used for providing SpEd services.

Carl J. Petersen
EduCreate
Published in
4 min readOct 3, 2023

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“I don’t know of a single school that was not told that they by law could not hold onto some of their classrooms…because there was no registered carrying teacher…Wow, unbelievable.”

– LAUSD Board President Jackie Goldberg

For the first time in decades, the LAUSD is operating with a School Board that is not controlled by members financed by the charter school industry. This finally allows supporters of public schools an opportunity to review policies designed by the charter school industry to give its schools a competitive advantage, including the ability to demand space on public school campuses using PROP-39, even if that will leave less room for public school students to receive services in the school their parents have chosen.

Prior to the Board’s consideration of the “Creating a Charter Schools Co-Location Policy to Mitigate Impacts Caused by Proposition 39” resolution at its September 26, 2023, afternoon…

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Carl J. Petersen
EduCreate

Parent, special education advocate and former LAUSD School Board candidate. Still fighting for the children. www.ChangeTheLAUSD.com