The Los Angeles Board of Education has approved a resolution to limit where charter schools can rent on-campus classroom space from the district.

As a result, about one-third of the city school district — 350 campuses — could become exempt from future space-sharing, district officials said. About one in five Los Angeles public school students attends a charter.

The vote on Sept. 26 was one of the most significant changes to local charter school policy in the 20 years since California required public school systems to offer charters space that is “reasonably equivalent” to schools in the area.

The board acted as tensions flared around the competing needs of the city’s public schools and its publicly funded but privately run charters. The resolution blocks future access to the more than 100 schools that serve academically struggling, low-income students, as well as Black Student Achievement Plan campuses and community schools, which provide additional services to children and families. The change also permits all school campuses to make more rooms unavailable to charters.

The California Charter Schools Association has threatened to sue to protect access to the campuses.

Los Angeles Times, Sept. 27