"California taxpayers send hundreds of millions of dollars every year to Learn4Life, one of the state's largest charter school networks, with 65 locations that serve about 20,000 students each year. For 24 years, Learn4Life schools have catered to some of the state's most vulnerable young people students behind on graduating, foster youth, students who are homeless, pregnant or living in poverty, students who just didn't find traditional schools to be working for them."
"More than a dozen current and former Learn4Life teachers and employees interviewed by The San Diego Union-Tribune said they think Learn4Life's educational model has systematically failed many of its students. They said such a model takes students who arguably need the most support and structure and gives them an education with little of either one where they don't have to see a teacher more than once a week, and where they learn on their own using take-home assignment packets."
Learn4Life operates 65 charter school locations in California and serves about 20,000 students annually, many of them behind on credits, foster youth, homeless, pregnant, or living in poverty. The network presents itself as a lifeline that helps students graduate when traditional schools have failed them. Multiple current and former teachers and employees report concerns about the quality of education and practices at Learn4Life schools. Staff criticisms focus on an educational model that provides limited teacher contact, reliance on take-home assignment packets, questionable attendance logs, and insufficient support and structure for high-need students.
Read at www.sandiegouniontribune.com
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