LAUSD rethinks offer to charter operators but not at Westchester
According to a Los Angeles Times article, schools like Taft and Crenshaw are complaining loudly about charters being offered space on their campuses so the LAUSD is beginning to rethink their offers to charter schools.
One result of the complaints from Crenshaw was from chief executive of the Inner City Education Foundation Michael Piscal who said he would decline to place one of his high-performing charters at Crenshaw High because he didn’t want to damage good relationships in that community. However the charter operator says he might need to accept an offer at Westchester High, even though “they were less than excited about us coming there, and they made that clear.”
Less than excited? Made that clear? Drew Furedi, director of the LMU/iDivision partnership signaled last Tuesday, that he had no qualms with sharing the Westchester campus with charters.
This came about at the April 22nd meeting of the neighborhood council education committee when I explained to Furedi that the so-called temporary classrooms were seen as excess resources by the district and thus could be shared with charters. The simple solution to keep charters off of the campus I suggested would be to remove the portables.
Furedi countered that he believes that the LMU/iDivision schools have an obligation both legal and moral to offer space to charters.
The original reform goal of the Westchester Family of Schools was to bring community kids back to the high school. That idea seems to have been lost on the LMU/iDivision partnership.
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