Bullis Charter School v. Los Altos School District

Opinion

DUFFY, J.

The Legislature in 1992 enacted the Charter Schools Act of 1992 (Ed. Code, § 47600 et seq.; the Act).1 Eight years later, the California electorate amended the Act by adopting Proposition 39. Under that amendment, school districts must provide to charter schools established within their jurisdiction school facilities with “conditions reasonably equivalent to those in which the [charter school] students would be accommodated if they were attending other public schools of the district.” (§ 47614, subd. (b).) This case explores the practical meaning of this reasonable equivalence…