LAUSD has proposed moving Wright Middle School STEAM Magnet to a shared space with Westchester High School so that an independent charter school called Wish can take over the entire campus.
A Westchester middle school is at the center of a brewing controversy involving a charter school, the Los Angeles Unified School District and one of the largest Black student populations in the district.
When Holmes went looking for a middle school for his son, he was immediately drawn to Wright STEAM Magnet in Westchester. It's now those students who are at risk of losing their campus. LAUSD has proposed moving Wright to a shared space with Westchester High School so that an independent charter school called Wish can take over the entire campus.
"I will tell you what the optics are. We have a newly renovated campus, the library, the auditorium, the robotics lab. We have all been displaced for a period of time and now that everything is set and ready to go, they are moving us from our campus. And it's a predominantly Black demographic. So, they are moving this student body to another campus and then turning over our fine, pristine environment to a different community and the demographics are different," Brown told CBSLA.
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