Will Students Drown in a Charter School’s Ocean of Debt?
“Where am I going to leave her today? I have to call in sick.”
- Parent of Student enrolled in a closed charter school
Imagine if the LAUSD decided that one of their schools was draining resources from the District and decided to shut it down just days into the start of the school year. Of course, this would never happen. Part of the mission of public schools is to serve all students, even if some students cost more to educate than others.
Charter schools have no such obligation. Instead, they look for students who will be the cheapest to educate and who will also inflate their average test scores. These publicly funded private schools will break the rules in order to discourage children with special education needs from enrolling. They will tell parents to find other options because their children are “not a good fit”, especially right before testing time. In some cases, they will just shut the doors of a school sending parents scrambling to find other options and leaving public schools with the obligation of ensuring that these students do not fall further behind.
Partnership to Uplift Communities (PUC Schools) was co-founded by disgraced former LAUSD Board Member Ref Rodriguez and was…
