Who Will Step In To Help These Students?

When the Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) School Board voted to deny the <a href="https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/lying-to-the-board-of-education-6edbbfebe7dd?sk=9645c691678ff05dc31163218d8bf52c" rel="noopener">North Valley Military Institute’s (NVMI)</a> charter renewal in 2017, the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) overruled its decision. In making this decision the LACOE board ignored the fact that a <a href="https://changethelausd.medium.com/a-charter-school-regulator-plays-the-blame-game-827e858eb250?sk=ae83a42063ce9841821319035baf1362" rel="noopener">current, certified copy of the school’s required annual independent audit was not on file</a>, that a lawsuit alleging “<a href="https://medium.com/groundgamela/does-metoo-apply-to-students-in-charter-schools-e6af720fbda?sk=f3f1d15d7edcca51a65ccdaeb2110610" rel="noopener">abhorrent child sex abuse</a>” had been filed against the school, and that its own staff had found that NVMI was <a href="https://changethelausd.medium.com/a-charter-school-cheats-a-school-district-sleeps-e7612e9379fc?sk=d979e72ba9c13669b96bb1a2e2ad0fe6" rel="noopener">failing in governance, student achievement, organizational management, and fiscal operations</a>. With LACOE saving NVMI from its well-deserved death sentence, the LAUSD was powerless to keep the charter school from demanding space on one of its campuses. Under <a href="https://www.changethelausd.com/a_parasite_in_search_of_a_host" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">PROP-39</a>, a charter school can force its way onto public school campuses <a href="https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/citizens-of-the-world-charter-school-the-unwelcomed-house-guest-8bd3d312b263?sk=078866a8e88e4d744c734b2aa5bcc521" rel="noopener">no matter the disruption to the existing students</a> even if that publicly funded private school is poorly run, hemorrhaging money and endangering its students. <a href="https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/who-will-step-in-to-help-these-students-b4750dfb666c">Learn More</a>