L.A. Unified’s cold shoulder to charter schools

Los Angeles Times: “Proposition 39, which was passed by voters in 2000, requires school districts to provide charter schools with facilities that are reasonably equivalent to those of other schools in the district. About 60,000 students in L.A. Unified have opted to attend charter schools. But administrators have in no way tried to meet the ‘reasonably equivalent’ standard . . . When charter schools manage to get funding to build their own schools independent of the district, they do so for far less money than the LAUSD does.”