Los Angeles: Controversial Charter Leader Takes Over Low-Performing “Learn4Life” Centers
Caprice Young is a star of the charter industry in California. She was a member and president of the board of the Los Angeles Unified School District. She was founder of the California Charter Schools Association, the well-heeled lobbyists for the private charter sector, which fights off accountability and transparency with the help of billionaires like Reed Hastings and Eli Broad. She is a graduate of the unaccredited Broad Academy. She led an embattled chain of Gulen charter schools in Los Angeles called Magnolia.
And now she will serve as superintendent of California’s floundering “Learn4Life” Centers.
The press release from Learn4Life says the chain enrolls 20,000 students in California, Ohio, and Michigan, but the Broad Center says it enrolls 40,000, in those states.
The Learn4Life charter schools are basically operated in malls and storefronts. Students drop in once a week to pick up their assignments. The schools collect huge sums from the state for low-quality “education,” if you can call it “education.”
Investigative reporter Will Huntsberry of the Voice of San CONTINUE READING: Los Angeles: Controversial Charter Leader Takes Over Low-Performing “Learn4Life” Centers | Diane Ravitch's blog
