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HOMEOWNERS CONSIDER SUING LAUSD OVER WALGROVE LAND LEASE AGREEMENT


BY GARY WALKER, THE ARGONAUT |HTTP://BIT.LY/XND0QS

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 5:19 PM PST :: A group of Mar Vista residents are mulling over the possibility of filing a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District to stop the construction of a charter school.

On Jan. 20, the LAUSD Facilities Management Division awarded Ocean Charter School a 2-acre plot at Walgrove Avenue Elementary School in Mar Vista in an effort to alleviate tensions brought on during “colocation spring” last year, when a plethora of charter schools sought classroom space at Westside neighborhood schools in March and April.

“We don’t want to (consider legal action), but we have to protect our way of life and our position as homeowners,” Linnea von Wissmann, who lives a few blocks from Walgrove, told The Argonaut.

Von Wissmann and several of her friends and neighbors feel that awarding a charter school - especially Ocean Charter, whose