District Silent As Charter School Dodges Audit
Monica Garcia, left, Marcos Aguilar, right, after Academia Semillas was renewed in April of 2012
Fresh off a controversial April 2012 renewal, the El Sereno charter school called Academia Semillas has refused to comply with an LAUSD audit, according to this December 2012 report by the Office of the Inspector General.“Repeated attempts to obtain this information from the school were unsuccessful and the school chose to communicate to the OIG exclusively through its legal counsel,” states the report, which was ordered specifically for the school by the LAUSD charter school division.
Thus far, LAUSD has taken the somewhat unusual step of declining to comment on the situation. However,California Charter School Association spokesperson Sierra Jenkins took the position that the charter school