Education Under Siege

Public School Parasite

The LAUSD used COVID response funds to pay a consultant over $281,000 to implement Betsy DeVos’ public school destroying funding scheme.

Under SCF “John F. Kennedy Senior High School in Granada Hills would lose the most, more than $3 million.”

- Capital And Main

John F. Kennedy Senior High School was built to ease overcrowding at Granada Hills High School, which at the time was a high-performing public school operated by the LAUSD. Today, the two schools serve student bodies that are vastly different despite the fact that they are only three miles apart. By discouraging the enrollment of children with special education needs, Granada Hills, which converted into a charter school, has managed to limit this population to 8.5% of its student body. As a public school, Kennedy accepts all students and 12.5% of its population has these needs. Granada’s enrollment practices have created obstacles for families that are experiencing homelessness while the LAUSD has a unit that searches for unhoused students and provides them with additional resources, resulting in a higher percentage of these students at Kennedy. There is also a higher percentage of English Learners at Kennedy.