Parents in Logan Heights are urging the San Diego Unified school district school to establish a new school within a struggling charter school. KPBS reporter Ana Tintocalis has the story.
Memorial Academy Charter School is struggling. It’s lost students, kids are performing poorly, teachers are unhappy, and the principal recently resigned.
Latino parents want the district to carve out space at the increasingly empty campus to establish a magnet school there.
Parent Candalaria Gomez wants the school board to interfere.
Gomez says parents want a magnet school at Memorial. She says parents are having many problems with the Memorial school board. She says parents want the district to step in because they feel more welcome at traditional public schools.
District officials say Memorial is a good place for a science and magnet school. But that depends on whether charter school officials will allow it. So far they've resisted.
Ana Tintocalis, KPBS News.
