LAUSD’s Measure EE Highlights the Need For Charter School Oversight

LAUSD’s Measure EE Highlights the Need For Charter School Oversight

LAUSD’s Measure EE Highlights the Need For Charter School Oversight

This is a compromise, but we owe that to our children and the way that we can model compromise as a Board and as a community. Let’s not forget that the disenfranchised here are our students…If you don’t compromise it leads to this retrenchment and cynicism that then goes to this downward spiral and even more resentment and cynicism and disappointment, and that is never the source of progress.”
– LAUSD Board Member Nick Melvoin

Last July, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board had the opportunity to put a parcel tax on the regularly scheduled November ballot. Unfortunately, the California Charter School Association (CCSA) opposed the resolution by George McKenna and Scott Schmerelson, falsely claiming that “the proposal [excluded] 110,000 charter public [sic] school students.” Therefore, Ref Rodriguez (in one of his last actions before pleading guilty to felonious acts related to his campaign), Nick Melvoin and Monica Garcia voted against asking the voters for funding that was desperately needed by the students of the district.

Less than nine months later, Melvoin and Garcia had a change of heart. Perhaps they read the writing on the wall and realized that Jackie Goldberg’s impending election meant that the parcel tax was going to pass without their support. Or maybe it was the fact that Melvoin’s expectations for a quick victory in the January strikecrumbled when parents and the community supported the demands made by the teachers. In any case, they finally joined McKenna and CONTINUE READING: LAUSD’s Measure EE Highlights the Need For Charter School Oversight