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The Largest Charter School in the Country Will Get Even Larger

October 8, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

A perfect example of what is wrong with the California law regarding charter authorizing.” – Scott Schmerelson The average school in the United States has 507 students. Through the 2018-2019 school year, Granada Hills Charter High School is authorized for an enrollment capacity of 5,500 students.  This is more than the total number of students […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Charter School Accountability, GHCHS, GHCS, Granada Hills Charter High School, Granada Hills Charter School, iGranada, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, Kelly Gonez, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division, Scott Schmerelson

Parents Left In The Dark About Charter Schools

March 7, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

Under the current rules of the LAUSD, “a charter school [is] required to notify all parents, guardians and teachers in writing within 72 hours when the District issues a Notice of Violations…and that the notification include the District’s rationale for the action”. However, no such notification was made after a Notice of Violation was issued […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: GHCHS, GHCS, Granada Hills Charter High School, Holding GHCHS Accountable to Their Charter, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division, The Accelerated Schools

Whack-A-Mole: The Los Angeles Approach to Charter School Oversight

January 15, 2018 by Carl J. Petersen

Our oversight is “proactive and responsive” – José Cole-Gutiérrez, LAUSD Charter School Division Last June, I informed the LAUSD School Board that a charter school under their jurisdiction was violating the privacy of their students by publishing “Parent Volunteer Hours” reports on their website that included student names. The charter’s Chief Development Officer defended the […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Alliance, alliance college ready public [sic] schools, Better 4 You Fundraising, El Camino Real Charter High School, GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division, LAUSD CSD, LAUSD School Board, NAACP, NAACP Charter School Moratorium, Partnership to Uplift Communities, Partnerships for Developing Futures, PUC, Ref Rodriguez

Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil: The Failures of LAUSD’S Charter School Division

September 11, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

State law provides that an authorizer is not liable for debts, obligations [or] liabilities so long as [they] provide appropriate oversight. We believe we are providing appropriate oversight.” [emphasis mine] – José Cole-Gutiérrez As the District slides towards bankruptcy due to declining enrollment, the LAUSD School Board is set to act on another round of […]

Filed Under: Call to Action, Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Celerity, CSD, GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, ICEF, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division, LAUSD School Board, Mónica García

The Blackwhite World of LAUSD’s Charter Schools

July 8, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

BLACKWHITE…a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to BELIEVE that black is white, and more, to KNOW that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary.” – George Orwell, 1984 Catherine Suitor, the Chief Development Officer of […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: alliance college ready public schools, California Charter School Association, Charter Oversight, GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, LAUSD

Is the LAUSD Charter School Division Providing Any Oversight?

June 28, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

We look at their websites, not only at that time but in their oversight.” Our oversight is “proactive and responsive.” – Jose Cole-Gutiérrez, LAUSD Charter School Division The LAUSD is “the largest district charter school authorizer in the nation, with about 250 independent and affiliated charter schools serving over 130,000 students.” The Charter School Division […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alliance, alliance college ready public schools, El Camino Real Charter High School, Enrollment, GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division, LAUSD CSD, Moratorium, NAACP

The LAUSD Turns A Blind Eye as Charters Cherry-Pick Their Students

June 16, 2017 by Carl J. Petersen

It is time to answer his question.” – Scott Schmerelson, LAUSD Board Member As I have reported previously, Granada Hills Charter High School (GHCHS) has items on the enrollment page of their website that appear to violate the law and clearly violate their charter. During the past six months, I have been unable to get […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Cherry Picking, Dr. George McKenna, El Camino Real Charter High School, Granada Hills Charter High School, IEP, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, LAUSD, LAUSD Charter School Division, LAUSD School Board, Northridge Academy, Scott Schmerelson

Mónica García on El Camino: Ignorance or Insincerity?

August 27, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

Oversight: “the job of checking that a process or system is working well” –Macmillan Dictionary Before the LAUSD School Board began debate on the Issuance of Notice of Violations for El Camino Real Charter High School (ECRCHS) “requesting the charter school remedy violations by September 23, 2016”, the public had an opportunity to speak. Other […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: David Fehte, Dr. George McKenna, El Camino Real Charter High School, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, LAUSD Charter School Division, LAUSD School Board, Marshall Mayotte, Mónica García, Notice of Violations, Scott Schmerelson, Steve Zimmer

Education for Sale: Lack of Oversight

August 1, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

This is the second section of my paper: Education for Sale: LAUSD Throws the Fight in Its  Competition with Charters. The previous section can be found at: The Broad Way Towards Bankruptcy   On the other side of the equation, the CCSA has proven that they are more than willing to compete with the LAUSD […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Bennett Kayser, Broad Foundation, California Charter School Association, CCSA, David Fehte, Diane Ravitch, Dr. George McKenna, El Camino Real Charter High School, GHCHS, Granada Hills Charter High School, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, Marshall Mayotte, Mónica García, PUC, Ref Rodriguez

Tax Spending Without Representation

November 1, 2015 by Carl J. Petersen

“Charter schools allow parents, teachers and the community to transform our public school system.” -California Charter School Association As Eli Broad prepares to implement his plan “to reach 50 percent charter market share” within the LAUSD, now is the time for Angelenos to begin asking what this privately controlled system would look like. While Broad […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Los Angeles, Profiteering, Uncategorized Tagged With: Charter School Governance, Eli Broad, Granada Hills Charter High School, Jose Cole-Gutierrez, LAUSD Charter School Division

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Federal Policy

Quick Education Voter’s Guide to the California CD34 Race, April 4, 2017

There are twenty-three candidates running to fill former Congressman Xavier Bacerra’s seat in Congressional District 34 in Southern California. (Bacerra is currently the state’s Attorney General, replacing Kamala Harris, who, after November 8, 2016, became our US Senator.) Election Day is Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 7:00 am to 8:00 pm. You can find your polling […]

Betsy DeVos, #NOTMYSDOE

Take the pledge to #resist and fight for public schools as a public good TODAY. DeVos had to have the assistance of Vice President Mike Pence’s unprecedented tie-breaking vote in order to win her confirmation. Two GOP Senators voted against, all Democratic Senators voted against. Yet all the other GOP Senators who received campaign donations […]

Next #DemDebate MUST Include K-12 Education Policy

The next #DemDebate is scheduled for the important primary state of Iowa on November 14, 2015. It’ll be broadcast by CBS in partnership with the Des Moines Register. Professor Julian Vasquez Heilig is leading the call for the families of 50 million students K-12 across the nation and the communities they live in to have […]

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