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Charter school advocates had backed Republican candidates and teacher’s unions backed Democrat candidates for the board, which can approve and renew charter schools.
Initial results for the three seats up for election show Republicans ahead for 2 seats, and Democrats ahead in one seat.
This Tuesday, the election for three seats on the board – which oversees school district finances and can approve or reject charter schools – is hotly contested.
Carrie Lundell, a PTA mother of four school-aged children from Orange, writes that partisan politics wants us to choose whether we are “pro charter school” or “anti charter school”. But, if we want to do right by our students, we need to stop talking in absolutes and start looking at charter schools and their costs on school districts and student education individually because not all charter schools are created equal.
State Senator John Moorlach writes that charter schools do not appear to hurt district finances but rather are the model for opportunity and achievement in the state’s otherwise dismal education picture.
Retired federal judge Lynne Riddle writes that both parents and teachers worry that opening Classical Academy Charter School will drain already too-scarce resources away from educating local kids while bringing nothing of added benefit to the district.
The Anaheim Elementary School District board will vote on a proposal to convert Palm Lane Elementary School into a charter school on Wednesday evening, Dec. 13.