Meg Palisoc, a USC alumna, who founded Synergy Charter Academy in 2004 with her husband, said she is hopeful that the increasing
number of charter schools in the area surrounding USC will spruce up the neighborhood.
Because the
presence of charter schools in an area might affect both student achievement and the decisions of families to move to a district, we measured state demographics and student achievement during the 1989 — 90 school year, several years before the first charter laws took effect.
But beginning in 2009, the
expansion of charter schools in the area (Camino Nuevo # 2, Vista Charter Middle, Rise Ko Hyang, LA Academy of Arts and Enterprise) begin also taking some of the enrollment from the area.
«Are you going to talk about what the impact is
of a charter school in an area, or are you going to talk about school choice?»