My "deal" would be a payment plan for the entire amount owed. We need a complete investigation of this travesty.
- Question 5: The North Valley Military Institute (NVMI) was co-located on the campus of Sun Valley High School / Valley Oaks Center For Enriched Studies (VOCES) when one of its administrators was accused of "abhorrent child sex abuse" against a student. It does not appear that parents of students on the public school campus were ever notified about these accusations. As a Board Member would you terminate the PROP-39 lease agreement for any charter school that put LAUSD students at a district campus in danger? Yes
We must be extremely careful about the vetting of employees at a charter school. We need to be sure that they really follow the same rules that we in LAUSD are required to follow in hiring employees. Are they correctly credentialed? Have they gone through proper security checks? The current system is broken If we must rely on our Charter Schools Division to do this scrutiny. I am very concerned and this is high on my list of issues to address immediately.
In the past, we usually find out too late and must issue the charter a "Notice to Cure" which is not an immediate action. As the authorizers of charter schools, we need to be more vigilant and in a timely way. The revocation of a charter school that puts the LAUSD in danger should be done.
Carl Petersen is a parent advocate for public education, particularly for students with special education needs, who serves as the Education Chair for the Northridge East Neighborhood Council. As a Green Party candidate in LAUSD's District 2 School Board race, he was endorsed by Network for Public Education (NPE) Action. Dr. Diane Ravitch has called him "a valiant fighter for public schools in Los Angeles." For links to his blogs, please visit www.ChangeTheLAUSD.com. Opinions are his own.
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