LAUSD Votes to Close LA Indigenous High School

LAUSD Votes to Close LA Indigenous High School

The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education voted to close the Anahuacalmecac International University Preparatory High School on Tuesday. Trustee Mónica García was the only board member who voted to renew the Indigenous-themed school’s 5-year charter.

“We have had more than 500 years of resistance. This is nothing new,” Marco Aguilar, the schools’ co-founder and executive director, told crying students and supporters after the meeting.

Anahuacalmecac can still appeal to stay open to the Los Angeles County Office of Education. Stay tuned for more information.

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They will never, ever, ever let us fucking run our own business. We need to do it WITHOUT them and IN SPITE of them. Always. They are not our friends. They do not have our best interests in mind. They want us to disappear. This is what the coloniser has always wanted.