Bullis Charter: Update

So, in an interesting twist to the Bullis charter expansion school into a new the Mountain View Whisman School district previously discussed on this blog, today, the board of Bullis Mountain View (BMV) abruptly cancelled their plans to open the school in Fall 2019.  The Superintendent was surprised to hear of the board's decision.  He had been planning on meeting with them today.  The head of school Jennifer Anderson-Rosse cited the district making too restrictive demands such as enrolling students in the school to match the demographics of the district. She argued that imposing a quota was illegal.  Racial quotas are illegal.  The district asked for representation based on income.  In other words the school had to serve low-income students not just the wealthier kids in the city.  So, Mountain View stays charter free for the moment.  

The arrogance of the rich: the story of Bullis

In Los Altos, California, an area where the median house price as of this writing is $3,391,900 according to Zillow and the median income is $157,500 a year  (the US median is $53,482), wealthy parents in neighboring Los Altos Hills were upset that the Los Altos School District closed their school because of low enrollment (you can read the full story here).  These highly resourced parents started a battle with the district by petitioning for a charter school.  The district turned them down.  Unfortunately, under the law at the time, the county was able to override the district decision and the district was forced to provide space.