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Will These Charter Schools Escape Accountability?

Three failing charter schools are appealing to the County after the LAUSD School Board took the rare step of rejecting their renewals.

“our school’s math performance makes a compelling case for renewing our charter”

– KIPP Sol, whose students scored 90.8 points below the state’s standard

The Charter School Industry spent millions of dollars trying to get Los Angeles voters to give them a school board that would refuse to hold their publicly funded private schools accountable for the public money they receive. Fortunately for students, the election results were not as charter schools had hoped. Instead of seating more clones of Nick Melvoin, the Board now has a majority of members who campaigned by supporting public schools.

Although they have a mandate to finally clamp down on the rampant mismanagement, corruption, and academic failure throughout the Charter School Industry, the current board has taken a more conservative approach, renewing the vast majority of schools that have submitted renewals of their charters. The four rejected at the Board’s meeting in January stand out as notable exceptions to a renewal process that continues to favor allowing these schools to continue operating, even with questionable results.

Of the four charter schools whose renewals were rejected, only Ivy Bound Academy has started winding down its operations, with its governing board considering a “Closure Resolution” at its meeting on February 20th. The other three, KIPP Sol, Los Angeles Leadership Academy (LALA), and Crete Academy, have ignored the overwhelming evidence supporting their closures and appealed the LAUSD’s charter denial to the County. These appeals will be considered by the Los Angeles Office of Education (LACOE) through its unelected Board.

Los Angeles Leadership Academy (LALA)

• An initial Public Hearing was held on March 4, 2025.
• The LACOE Board will vote to approve or deny the appeal on April 15…