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.
Problems with
alleged improprieties of the CEO (that's part of a huge story that's blowing up all
over entertainment), dead silence from devs (who were gagged), an unannounced shutdown way earlier than the announced one (that we only learned about because devs leaked it), and the firing of everyone and shutting down of the company was a blow.