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Taft Charter High

Who makes school-level decisions and what the public record shows about Taft’s current priorities. Part of Los Angeles Unified School District.

Who decides at Taft?

An LAUSD-affiliated charter school with school-level councils

Taft Charter High is a public charter high school in Los Angeles Unified. Its LSLC/Charter Council records show school-level discussion of professional development, schedules, student discipline, school events, materials, and budget updates, while the LAUSD Board remains the district-level governing body.

School-level council

The LSLC/Charter Council records discuss Taft’s calendar, discipline approach, professional development, budget updates, events, and materials.

District connection

Taft is governed within Los Angeles Unified and its official directory identifies cost center 1888001.

Public budget record

LAUSD’s spending dashboard lists program budgets, commitments, actual spending, and available balances for Taft’s cost center.

The available council archive is incomplete, so these records do not show every school decision or establish how often the council met outside September through November 2025.

Where the school stands

Enrollmentcontext
2,157 students
Collected LSLC agenda and notesverified
6 records
Academic Excellence budget in dashboard snapshotverified
802,577 dollars

Major projects

Smart-phone-free school-day policy

under consideration

The LSLC/Charter Council agreed to move forward with the proposed policy, with teacher-expectations language still to be refined.

Next: Publication or implementation details were not found in the available records.
  1. Council discusses exceptions and agrees to move forward with the proposed plan

Funding

No funding amount stated in the meeting notes

Professional-development calendar

in progress

The council revised professional-development planning and identified future department dates through May, including data and intervention work.

Next: The notes say the principal would send future dates to department chairs so they could plan topics.
  1. Council shifts a department professional-development focus to intervention strategies and 10-week marks analysis
  2. Council lists department professional-development dates through May

Funding

No separate funding amount stated in the meeting notes

School-level LSLC/Charter Council agendas and notes, an English-learner parent notice, the official LAUSD Taft budget dashboard, and official school-directory identity information.

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