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Is The School Board Willing To Give Up $7,678,022?

KIPP Corazon’s charter is renewed without the Charter School Division being asked to explain why they forgave $28,111 in overallocation fees.

“I believe that a shady deal was made by the previous superintendent to allow the charters to just pay a percentage of what was owed. Again, all done in secret.”

– Scott Schmerelson

José J. Cole-Gutiérrez addresses the LAUSD School Board meeting on January 14, 2025

When PROP-39 appeared on the California ballot in 2000 the name of the measure stated the purpose was to “decrease [the] Supermajority from two-thirds to 55% for [the passage of] School Bonds.” While most of the electorate probably did not read beyond the title before deciding how to vote, this proposition had a little surprise tucked into its text. After its passage “each school district [had to] make available, to each charter school operating in the school district, facilities sufficient for the charter school to accommodate all of the charter school’s in-district students in conditions reasonably equivalent to those in which the students would be accommodated if they were attending other public schools of [the]…