L.A. Unified's cold shoulder to charter schools
Charter school operators are receiving separate but unequal treatment from the L.A. school district.
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The Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools cluster, scheduled to open this fall on the site of the former Ambassador Hotel, was built at a cost of $578 million, or nearly $140,000 per student seat. It is without question the most expensive public school ever built in the Los Angeles Unified School District, and quite possibly the most expensive public school in the country.
The project's astronomical cost raises a question about whether the school district is using resources efficiently. It also raises issues of fairness.
Proposition 39, which was passed by voters in 2000, requires school districts to provide charter schools with facilities that are reasonably equivalent to those of other schools in the district. About 60,000 students in L.A. Unified have opted to attend charter schools. But administrators have in no
