Ivy Academia Charter Fighting for More Space
Los Angeles Unified's highest-performing independent charter school, Ivy Academia, is embroiled in a struggle with the district for more space. The Woodland Hills school held its second protest Wednesday challenging LAUSD's refusal so far to reopen two vacant campuses nearby that would allow their school to grow.
The school is working to raise community awarness of their need for adequate facilities.
LAUSD has five schools near Ivy that have been closed for years due to declining enrollment, but district officials maintain it would cost millions of dollars to prepare them for student occupation.
Reopening the vacant schools became a campaign issue during the school board election. New school board member Tamar Galatzan, who represents parts of the San Fernando Valley, had said she would work to reopen these school sites.
Click here for a Nov. 24, 2006 article that gives some background information of what's going on.
Comments
If this law was passed in 2000, why has the district/charter waited this long to make an issue of it? If they would have taken care of it when this was first passed, they would have had plenty of time to re-open those closed schools and not have to squish the charter students into district campuses. Talk about over-crowding...I thought that's what we were trying to get away from.
Now they're crunched for time and space.
Posted by: Charlene | May 2, 2008 8:47 AM