A statement by LAANE: Los Angeles for a New Economy.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 29, 2018
Contact: Haley Potiker – 714-457-2852 – hpotiker@laane.org
Parents Are Standing Tall as LAUSD Board of Education Votes in Favor of Charter Moratorium
Los Angeles parents who were leaders in teachers’ strike support celebrate an important step towards regulating the charter industry
LOS ANGELES — Parents who spent much of the last few years organizing for better charter industry regulation declared victory this afternoon as the school board voted 5-to-1 in favor of a resolution to impose a moratorium on new charter schools in LAUSD. Board Member Nick Melvoin was the lone “no” vote.
“We came to this meeting to hold the board accountable to the agreement they made with the teachers,” said Alicia Baltazar, a parent at Fries Avenue Elementary School in Wilmington. “It is gratifying to see that all but one member of the board were able to make good on an important promise they made to the community.”
The vote comes two weeks after a tentative agreement was struck between UTLA and LAUSD, which included a commitment by the district to ask the state of California to impose a moratorium on charter growth in LAUSD.
“We want all our children to have the opportunity to learn and succeed in school. But in our neighborhoods, LAUSD can open a new charter school without considering how it affects other public schools, even other charter schools,” Baltazar said. “Today’s vote gets us one step closer to ensuring that LAUSD will better regulate the charter industry so that we can protect funding for our existing schools.”
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Founded in 2016, Reclaim Our Schools LA is a broad-based coalition of parents, educators, students, and community members working to improve access and advance opportunities in public education for all students in Los Angeles. This event is a part of a series actions that will take place in the coming week in support of the demands being advanced by Los Angeles teachers, parents and community groups.
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Diane Ravitch's blog 
I think if the legislature passes a charter law of any kind that doesn’t eliminate them, that law will help legitimize them as part of the education system.
The only way to deal with this Koch conspiracy invasion of the US public education system is to take away the public money that feeds the corporate charter school beast.
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I think—correction—I know you’re right. Certainly not of the Right.
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scary truth and exact logic
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Pure joy.
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