Posts
By
Star Moffatt, Founder & CEO Moffatt Media (M&M)
Palmdale,
California
July
8, 2020, Thursday
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Parents
'Crying Wolf' About PPP Money to Charter Schools, When LAUSD Received a
Whopping $942.9 Million
According
to –CBSN Los Angeles on July 7, 2020 at 6:32pm
"‘It’s Not Fair’: Local Charter Schools Receive Millions In PPP
Loans As Area Districts Struggle To Find Money To Reopen Safely"
Several LAUSD parents recently complained about
charter schools receiving millions of dollars in PPP loans from the federal
government. (Source:
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/07/07/its-not-fair-local-charter-schools-receive-millions-in-ppp-loans-as-area-districts-struggle-to-find-money-to-reopen-safely/)
But the primary question should be why LAUSD parents
have been duped and used as pawns, because it appears LAUSD forgot to tell
those same parents that LAUSD received $942,940,000, during the COVID-19
Pandemic.
$942,940,000
translated into words: Nine Hundred
Forty Two Million, Nine Hundred Forty Thousand dollars LAUSD received from
private investors, back on April 24, 2020.
Now
compare $5-10 million in PPP Loans from the federal government to charter schools
to LAUSD's $942,940,000 million, which number is greater in simple math terms?
Charter
schools, which are public schools, need money to get by just like regular public
schools. Why shouldn't they be entitled to receive at least a small fraction of
what the other public schools receive?
“So most people have no idea, for example, that
charter schools, which are all public schools, have to actually pay for their
facilities, they have to pay rent or a mortgage for the buildings that they’re
in,” Debbie Veney of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
explained.
CBSN
Los Angeles further reported that Tracy Cook, a Los Angeles Unified School
District public school parent, said, "Are they a public school or are they
a business? Are they a fish or are they a fowl? Who can
guess?" She apparently doesn't think charter schools need to function
during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The
actual public concern is whether LAUSD is the actual one who is really foul for
not being transparent by not disclosing to LAUSD parents that it had received
$942,940,000 back in April during the COVID-19 Pandemic crisis.
Moffatt
Media (M&M) reached out to LAUSD, however, no one from LAUSD responded before
deadline.
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