Re “Lawmakers are trying once more to sweeping changes to charter school oversight” (May 5): I read your AB 84 article and found it ironic or intentional that you featured a quote from officials at Pacific Coast Academy and Cabrillo Point Charter School, both of which are Inspire Charter Schools, which caused this legislation to be written.
Yes, the proposed legislation is based on audits and reports filed after the A3 and Inspire Charter School scandals, and seeing AB 84 rise as the solution is troubling and misguided. Both scandals happened after the district which authorized the schools failed to provide oversight. So throwing more regulations and oversight at charter schools as AB 84 requires is the answer for districts that didn’t do their jobs?
Just another day in nutty California, where solutions and taxes are enforced by one-party rule, and the good citizens either move away or die from death by 1,000 blue cuts. In this case, killing charter public schools will happen if this legislation becomes law.
— Cameron Curry, Oceanside
