9th Circuit: AZ Charter Schools are not state actors

AZ Daily Sun: “The judges acknowledged that, under Arizona law, charter schools are ‘public schools.’ . . . But Judge Sandra Ikuta, writing for the unanimous court, said that does not make the school and its owners “state actors,’ something required to make a civil rights challenge. Instead, the court concluded, the school is a private company . . . ”

Caviness v. Horizon Community Learning Center, Inc., No. 08-15245 (9th Cir. Jan. 4, 2010)