‘This isn’t right’: California teachers question priorities, track record of Learn4Life charter schools

California taxpayers send hundreds of millions of dollars every year to Learn4Life, one of the state’s largest charter school networks, with 65 locations that serve about 20,000 students each year.

For 24 years, Learn4Life schools have catered to some of the state’s most vulnerable young people — students behind on graduating, foster youth, students who are homeless, pregnant or living in poverty, students who just didn’t find traditional schools to be working for them. Learn4Life says it offers a lifeline to those students and promises to help them graduate when traditional high schools have failed them.

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“If this was not an option, I promise you, these kids will not be in school,” said Lindsay Reese, Learn4Life’s area superintendent, who oversees the network’s San Dieg