Letters: What did Aspire’s charter schools do wrong?

Re “LAUSD board’s turf war,” Editorial, Feb. 16

In December, while attending the National Hispanic College Fair at Vanguard University with a group of high school students from Orange County, I became curious about a group of students who stood out from the crowd. They looked professional and were very well behaved.

Thinking they were from a local private school, I asked them where they were from. At first I thought they said Aspire in Huntington Beach, but they corrected me and told me they were from Huntington Park.

I had no idea this school existed, and as a long-ago Huntington Park resident, I was so proud of the way these students represented their school and community.

With Academic Performance Index scores above 800 and positive public representation, I am at a loss at to why the campuses operated by Aspire Public Schools are being closed by the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Gloria Nieva

Orange

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