Education

Concerned parents across the USA should also take heed: the battle going on in Los Altos is one that may come you your town as well. Boutique Charter Schools are on the rise and threaten to kick thousands of kids out of the schools they love, ripping apart some of the best communities in the country.

Bullis Charter School was founded by a small, vengeful group of millionaires and billionaires and their high-paid lawyers. The public school near them closed (it re-opened a few years later as Gardner Bullis School). This made them very angry.

Instead of starting a private school--trivial for people of these means--this group chose the nastiest, most divisive, most disruptive path their high-paid lawyers could dream up to get back at the community: they used the charter school laws to create a quasi private school and started suing the local School District.

Even though the school that was closed is now re-opened, they continue to fight the District and--get this--they even want to close the school that was re-opened, disrupting the education for hundreds of kids and damaging the local community.