Charter school offer dropped at Taft High after town hall meeting

In early April, the Los Angeles United School District offered to share campuses with nearly 40 charter schools. Taft High School in Woodland Hills was one of the proposed shared campuses, according to the Web site for the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council.

Shortly thereafter, former LAUSD Superintendent Ray Cortines re-joined the school district, this time as the senior deputy superintendent.

Then, the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council convened a town hall meeting at Taft and a standing-room-only audience let Cortines, LAUSD Boardmember Marlene Canter and a full panel of LAUSD officials know that the community was vehemently opposed to compromising the Taft High program by sharing the campus with a charter school, the neighborhood council's Web site states.

Recently, LAUSD announced that, in spite of the threat of litigation, the district is rescinding seven of the charter offers that were made, including the offer to CHAMPS Charter for classroom space at Taft High School.

Shortly after that, LAUSD announced that all responsibilties for day-to-day district operations have been shifted to Cortines.