A School District’s Failure to Follow Through

“Lunch Shelter Area that is structurally unstable. It is an immediate safety hazard and must be fenced off until removed or constructed to the District’s standards and applicable laws.”

- LAUSD Facilities Services Division

Within a period of one year, Granada Hills Charter High School (GHCHS) was issued two Notices to Cure (NTC) and one Notice of Violation by LAUSD. These directed the charter’s administration to correct financial improprieties, enrollment policies that did not conform with the education code and construction projects that endangered the safety of students. Each specified deadlines that had to be met. While these deadlines have all passed, it does not appear that the corrective actions in any of these cases have been made.

The NTC issued on September 21, 2016 informed “the governing board of Granada Hills Charter High School (GHCHS) of the Charter School Division’s (CSD) concerns regarding the borrowing of GHCHS’ Associated Student Body (ASB) funds to meet GHCHS’ payroll obligations” after an investigation found that the administration had made “‘emergency’ transfers totaling $1,035,000” from the Associated Student Body (ASB) bank account. These funds…