Fordham Institute President Mike Petrilli said LAUSD’s act is ‘flagrant’ and ‘it seems very in-your-face.’
On the first day of the spring semester fifth grader GG Gareffa, 10, takes LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho on a tour of Carpenter Community Charter School in Studio City on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. Charter schools will be barred from hundreds of Los Angeles Unified District school campuses under a new policy that is among the most restrictive of its kind.
“This is one of those situations that, no matter what, we’re going to have some people dissatisfied on either side,” said L.A. school superintendent Alberto Carvalho, who created the new regulations at the direction of the district school board, an effort led by board president Jackie Goldberg and board member Rocio Rivas.
The new rules are a reversal for a city that historically has been friendly to charter schools and was immediately opposed by charter advocates, who threatened legal action in a letter to the school board as soon as the new policy was announced. The long-simmering conflict over charter schools in Los Angeles reached a flashpoint in September when the board issued a resolution compelling Carvalho to create the policy and spelled out many of the specific components it should contain.The resolution, crafted by board president Goldberg and board member Rivas, called for the policy preventing charters from being co-located in school buildings that enrolled vulnerable students in the three groups.
But it’s uncommon for a city to delete such a large chunk of schools from eligibility for co-locations, he said. “It’s unusual for the district to be so flagrant, and put it down in writing, rather than to just find myriad ways to make life difficult,” Petrilli said. “It seems very in-your-face.” While Rivas and Goldberg spoke in favor of the proposed rules, board member Nick Melvoin, who voted in September against the resolution, spoke against them.
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