Advocates have long called for more school choice, arguing that zip codes, school boundaries and family income should not limit the ability to select a school. Charter and magnet schools are forms of public school choice. Groups are organizing to put an initiative before voters in November 2022 to extend school choice to private schools by funding school vouchers.
Out of 70 LCAPs selected, Public Advocates couldn’t find 27 online and most of the 43 reviewed lacked key spending data and evidence of parent involvement.
Activist Ben Austin founded the Kids Coalition to help parents and students obtain more input into the educational policies of the Los Angeles Unified School District
But support shrinks, with Democrats opposed, to idea of giving government subsidies for religious or private schools to all parents, regardless of income.
