Progress Being Made At New Hope Chapel Site, But Will Not Be Ready For Our September Start Date

LFCSA Parents:
In an effort to keep everyone in the loop, here is up-to-date information about our next year’s location:

New Hope Chapel Update: We have filed an application for our Conditional Use Permit (CUP), which is required to operate as a school at the site. We are on a “fast track” for the permit to be approved, which will hopefully be around late July, and New Hope Chapel has agreed to share the costs with LFCSA. We are currently negotiating a cost-splitting agreement with New Hope Chapel for the soil testing that will be performed at the site, and we are awaiting the government’s input on what requirements they might have on the testing. Although we remain optimistic that this will be our permanent home, it is not going to be up-and-running by September due to time constraints.

I would like to address the anxiety that some of you must be feeling about our school’s likely new temporary site at Selma Elementary. Just as a house is not what defines a home, our temporary location for the Fall is not what defines us as a school. As a couple of our teachers have pointed out to me, a school is not a physical space, but instead a community of people. LFCSA’s students, parents, teachers, and staff make up a talented, diverse, dedicated, innovative, and caring community; our temporary location will not affect our goal to provide our children with a quality education.

There will be more information to report next week about the Selma Elementary location and the Prop. 39 offer from LAUSD.

Thank you for your support as we move through this complicated yet exciting process. Please look for more site updates in the weeks to come.

George Abrams