Should the board choose to stand by its charter division staff, the schools would simply appeal to the State Board of Education in Sacramento or the politically appointed Los Angeles County Office of Education, where only last year Magnolia received reversals after the previous LAUSD board rejected three renewals over financial improprieties arising from the chain's ties to an alleged
immigration fraud ring run by Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen.
Last fall, a federal
immigration judge ordered 15 Iraqi Christians deported from California for
immigration fraud — not because they were illegally coached on the tenants of Christianity, like in a New York City
fraud ring — but because they had already been granted safe haven in Europe.