Los Angeles International Charter High School v. Los Angeles Unified School District

INTRODUCTION

Proposition 39 requires public school districts to share their facilities fairly among all public school students, including those in charter schools (Ed. Code, § 47614, subd. (a), as amended by Prop. 39), 1 by, inter alia, providing charter schools with facilities sufficient to accommodate all of the charter schools’ in-district students in conditions reasonably equivalent to those in which the students would be accommodated if they were attending other public schools in the district, and by making reasonable efforts to provide those facilities near where the charter schools wish to locate. (§ 47614, subd. (b).)

*1352 At issue in this appeal is whether the trial court erred in finding that respondent Los Angeles Unified School District (the District) complied with a peremptory writ of mandate directing the District to offer Los Angeles International Charter High School (LAICHS) public school facilities for the 2010-2011 school year. (§ 47614, subd. (b); Cal. Code Regs., tit. 5, § 11969.1 et seq.; Regulations.) The District’s return, filed with the court to show compliance, explained it offered LAICHS eight contiguous classrooms at Belmont High School.…