Today's Fresh Start v. Inglewood Unified etc. CA2/2

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Appellant Today’s Fresh Start, Inc. has operated a charter school in respondent Inglewood Unified School District (IUSD) since 2009. Its charter was renewed in 2012 and 2016. The 2016 renewal occurred when authorities failed to take timely action on appellant’s petition for renewal, and it was deemed approved by operation of law. (Today’s Fresh Start Charter School v. Inglewood Unified School Dist. (2018) 20 Cal.App.5th 276, 280– 281, 285 (TFS II).) Appellant operated other schools in the County of Los Angeles (County). County revoked appellant’s charter in 2007. (TFS I, supra, 57 Cal.4th at pp. 207–211, 230–231 [upholding the revocation].) In 2015, the Los Angeles Unified School District denied appellant’s petition for a charter school, describing its history as “unsuccessful.” IUSD has been insolvent since 2012 and is in receivership. The state administered IUSD from 2012 to 2018. In 2017 and 2018, IUSD’s state administrator warned appellant about the likely impact of the “severe underperformance of your students” on the renewal of its IUSD charter. In 2018, respondent Debra Duardo, superintendent of respondent County Office of Education, assumed…