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The Charter School Building Boom Hits The Valley
The Girls Athletic Leadership School (GALS) is building a new facility despite not having met its enrollment target for the last three years.
“Having a permanent, dedicated campus provides more stability and consistency for our students and their families, and ties us more closely to our Van Nuys community.”
– GALS
Imagine you have worked hard to achieve the American Dream and saved enough money to buy a piece of suburbia in the San Fernando Valley. You pick an older neighborhood with modest houses crisscrossed by two-lane roads. Then one day a private school using public money buys a couple of lots in the neighborhood and bulldozes the houses that sat on them. In their places, construction crews start piling up modified 40-foot shipping containers. They will be placed together like a giant Lego set to build the new Van Nuys campus for the Girls Athletic Leadership School (GALS). The view out your side windows will now be more like the Port of Los Angeles rather than the suburban Valley.
