Defending Public Education

Neighborhood Council Joins Call For Prop-39 Moratorium

Under the proposal new co-locations of charter schools on public school campuses would be suspended until the COVID-19 crisis has passed.

Education: MOTION (Forsmark/Meredith) to recommend NENC support the call for a moratorium on new Proposition 39 co-locations or expansions until the COVID-19 crisis has passed. (Passed 7–0–0 on 5/13/20)

-From the May 20, 2020 agenda of the

Northridge East Neighborhood Council

Proposition 39, passed by California voters in 2000, lowered the threshold needed to pass school bonds from two-thirds of the electorate to 55%. Hidden within the proposition’s text, however, was a clause that mandated that “each school district shall 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…