The usual complaints are charter schools choose the best students, discourage special education students and somehow have more money. Regardless of their arguments, there’s one basic fact: Charter schools are finding ways to succeed during the COVID-19 pandemic while LAUSD schools continuously wait for a giant bureaucracy to make decisions. Nothing is more telling than how charter schools are handling high school sports when compared with LAUSD schools. Los Angeles County is in the red tier and headed to the much-less-restrictive orange tier, and yet LAUSD schools and administrators are struggling compared with the independent charter schools. AdvertisementBut it’s clear what’s happening: The charter schools are moving full speed ahead while LAUSD schools slowly try to regroup, while others have given up.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 21, 2021 13:17 UTC