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Leaders broke ground Friday, June 15 in Reseda on what they hope will be a campus learning environment that also serves to help revitalize the community around it.
Magnolia Science Academy Reseda celebrated the construction of a new, 25,000-square-foot high school classroom building for its sixth- to 12th-grade Valley campus — known as MSA-1.
The campus, at 18238 Sherman Way, is intended to meet what school officials said were the “growing needs” of the local community and to expand the charter school’s STEAM program, a college preparatory program that emphasizes science, technology, engineering, arts and math.
“Finally, today was the big day, to start the dream of having a new high school,” said its MSA-1 Principal Mustafa Sahin.
Sahin said the school’s current building — known for its big exterior Albert Einstein mural — was simply too small for middle-schoolers and high-schools to be under one roof. That’s the current situation at MSA-1 campus, which is adjacent to the where the new building will be built, on Sherman Way. Not only that, but there was continued high demand for enrollment, Sahin said, adding that the move was five to 10 years in the making.
Over that time, the path for Magnolia college preparatory schools — which are part of a network of 10 public charter schools in Southern California that serve 1,400 sixth- through 12th-grade students in economically disadvantaged communities — has been at times treacherous, and at others triumphant. In October 2016, LAUSD’s Charter Schools Division cited the Magnolia schools’ “failure to timely respond” to document requests from LAUSD’s Office of Inspector General, which had been investigating Magnolia Public Schools since September 2014, and the Fiscal Crisis Management Assistance Team, an external state agency that provides financial oversight.
District staffers had said that Magnolia Public Schools’ “repeated failure” to respond in a reasonable time frame to information requests “limited the district’s ability to fully oversee the fiscal and business operations” of the nonprofit.
L.A’s Board of Education denied their renewal.
But ultimately, MSA-1, in Reseda; MSA-2, in Lake Balboa; and MSA-3, in Carson, were spared from potential closure after a county board voted in December 2016 to renew their charter school petitions on appeal.
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The county’s Board of Education is now the authorizer of these charter schools.
According to school officials, the new Reseda facility will feature state-of-the-art chemistry, biology and tech classrooms, a rooftop recreation area, an outdoor lunch patio and more than 20 new classrooms and staff offices. MSA-1 will be able to accommodate 300 more students, once the new building is done.
LA officials put the development into bigger-picture terms.
“What’s exciting is not only what this project means for the school and its students, but it is part and parcel of a larger catalytic development that’s happening right here on these properties,” said L.A. City Councilman bob Blumenfield.
Leaders touted the project as a first step iin a plan — known as “Reseda Rising” — to revive the Reseda Town Center commercial area, which – in addition to the new building at MSA-1 – also includes plans to construct an ice skating and roller hockey facility, a new movie theater and apartments.
https://www.dailynews.com/2018/06/15/magnolia-science-academys-reseda-charter-school-campus-is-part-of-a-bigger-picture-for-revamping-reseda/
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