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Charter
School Gets State Stamp of Approval
District officials
twice turned down QUED, which plans to open its doors by next fall
By
Gene C. Johnson Jr.
Bulletin
Staff Writer
It
appears that by September 2009, there will be a new charter elementary
school in Compton—whether some on the Compton Unified School
District’s Board of Education want it or not, said a spokesman
for QUED Charter School.
According to QUED’s Glenn Noreen, district officials twice turned
down QUED’s efforts to establish a charter school in Compton, before
they decided to state their case to the State Board of Education, which
unanimously approved the move Nov. 6.
And the pending elementary school, said school board member Joel
Estrada, appears to be yet another item on the district’s already
full plate.
“I describe this structure as unique because, in this case, an entity
hundreds of miles away made a determination that only impacts our
district,” Estrada
said. “It is the equivalent of me deciding that another person should
now live and board in your house.
“You must now share resources and you will have minimal say in how
they live in your house,” he said. “Likewise, the district
is to share already scarce resources and will have minimal say in
how the charter school governs.”
Several calls to David Amezcua in the school district’s Office of
Communications, as well as to Christine Sanchez, director of Communications,
were not returned.
The district has a long history of turning down charter school applicants,
who can easily circumvent local opinion by going to the state for
approval after being shot down locally.
“Compton has a reputation in the charter school community as being
very unwelcoming to the charter schools,” Noreen said. “The
reason for (a charter school in) Compton is because there are a lot
of challenges for the existing Compton schools. We felt that it was important
to give additional educational alternatives to Compton parents.
“We’ve applied to the district for a facility. It turns out,
under the terms of Proposition 39, school districts are required to provide
facilities
to charter schools,” he said. “So we submitted a request to
the Compton school district back in October. And we’ve asked for
it in the area of McKinley Elementary School.”
The McKinley location was chosen, he said, because there was, in
particular, a high number of enrollment applications from parents in that
area .
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