According to parents who attended the Board of Trustees meeting this evening the charter petition has been withdrawn. However, its proponents did so with a threat that it could be revised and resubmitted at a later date.
It seems the charter proposal is dead. For now.
Good work to all who have worked so hard to stop it dead in its tracks.
Now it's time for those LWIP parents who have pushed this ill-conceived charter petition to apologize and resign from the LWIP Administrative Council for undemocratically pushing this on all of their fellow parents in the program and across the campus. It has been a monumental waste of everyone's time and has drained the District of valuable money and other resources that should have otherwise gone to educating our children.
The lesson we can all learn from this battle is that a well informed and engaged community is the best defense against the corporate privatization of our public schools under the guise of charter schools. As the powerful abolitionist campaigner and former slave Frederick Douglass once wrote, "Forewarned, forearmed, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance." (The Nation's Problem, 1889)
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