“The county recognized that we’re doing a great job in collaboration with our families.”Įditor’s note: This article has been updated to note that Magnolia Science Academy 2 is located in the Lake Balboa area. “We feel vindicated and just happy to be able to educate our kids,” Young said of Tuesday’s decision. County Office of Education staff and its board “were smart enough” to realize that was not a real issue. Young, who called Turkey’s allegation a “frivolous political vendetta” that has nothing to do with the local students, said the L.A.
The government of Turkey has alleged that Magnolia Public Schools has inappropriate ties to a Turkish national Fethullah Gulen, who has been charged in absentia there for allegedly trying to destabilize the Turkish government. The Magnolia school in the Lake Balboa area was also identified at the time as the top-ranked charter high school within LAUSD boundaries. The affected Magnolia schools in Reseda and Van Nuys were in the top 3 percent of all high schools in the nation, according to an April issue of U.S. The governing board of Magnolia Public Schools currently has three vacancies that it hopes to fill with community members, Young said. Young, a former LAUSD school board president, called the concerns of the county’s Office of Education and LAUSD staff “unfounded” but said the group will “continue to provide information to any oversight bodies and overseers that they request.” “We were given a real opportunity to refute the misstatements and to add in the facts that were in our favor that had been left out, such as the fact that we have a near 100 percent graduation rate and our students graduate college ready,” Young said Thursday.Įach of the three schools has at least a 98 percent graduation rate and among the students who do graduate, more than 80 percent meet University of California and Cal State University eligibility requirements, according to the national nonprofit. The state appeal would have been its last recourse to avoid closure other than pursuing litigation, Young said. County Board of Education rejected renewal of the schools this week, the nonprofit charter school group could have appealed the decision to the state. District staffers said that Magnolia Public Schools’ “repeated failure” to respond in a reasonable time frame to information requests “limited the district’s ability to fully oversee the fiscal and business operations” of the nonprofit. In October, LAUSD’s Charter Schools Division cited the Magnolia schools’ “failure to timely respond” to document requests from LAUSD’s Office of Inspector General, which has been investigating Magnolia Public Schools since September 2014, and the Fiscal Crisis Management Assistance Team, an external state agency that provides financial oversight. RELATED STORY: Magnolia charter schools fight to stay open after LAUSD ‘death sentence’īoyd said he was impressed by the “very strong” academic performance of the schools’ students, including high graduation and college-readiness rates.“Since she got here in January 2015, we’ve seen major improvement in every single area questioned or the problem has been completely resolved.” “Overturning the superintendent and staff is not something that I take lightly, but here we had a situation where the admittedly serious fiscal problems were under resolution under (Magnolia Public Schools’ CEO and Superintendent) Caprice Young,” said Doug Boyd, president of the county board who voted in favor of renewal, on Thursday. County Superintendent of Schools and her staff as well as LAUSD on Tuesday.
The county’s Board of Education, which is now the authorizer of these charter schools, acted against the recommendation of the L.A. The three college preparatory schools, which are part of a network of 10 public charter schools in Southern California that emphasize math and science, serve about 1,400 sixth- through 12th-grade students in economically disadvantaged communities. Two months ago, the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Board of Education denied their renewal. The Los Angeles County Board of Education voted 4-1 Tuesday to renew the charters of Magnolia Science Academies 1, 2 and 3, located respectively in Reseda, the Lake Balboa area and Carson through June 2022. Three Magnolia Public Schools, including two in the San Fernando Valley, were spared from potential closure after a county board voted this week to renew their charter school petitions on appeal.
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