Gabriella Charter Corporation further encroaches Logan Street Public Elementary School
First published in Echo Park Patch on 2011-08-15.
"Colocation is eviction... It doesn't mean sharing, it means displacement." — NY State Sen. Bill Perkins
Gabriella Charter School Corporation continues to blatantly disregard the rights of the public school community at Echo Park's Logan Street Elementary School. Not content with having exceeded their allotment of space by several rooms, last week the well heeled executives of the corporate charter decided to forcibly annex Logan's entire auditorium. Here's an excerpt from one of the witnesses:
"Colocation is eviction... It doesn't mean sharing, it means displacement." — NY State Sen. Bill Perkins
Gabriella Charter School Corporation continues to blatantly disregard the rights of the public school community at Echo Park's Logan Street Elementary School. Not content with having exceeded their allotment of space by several rooms, last week the well heeled executives of the corporate charter decided to forcibly annex Logan's entire auditorium. Here's an excerpt from one of the witnesses:
[We] looked into the school auditorium to discover that the Gabriella Charter School had moved its entire front office into the Logan auditorium. That includes desks, sofas, file cabinets, end tables and
