Cadet medics simulate taking a patient into a helicopter during an NVMI Summer Camp.
Credit: Courtesy of Mark Ryan
The North Valley Military Institute — a grades six-12 charter school founded in 2013 — voluntarily surrendered its charter and closed its doors permanently on Aug. 25, leaving nearly 800 students and 180 employees in the Los Angeles area without a place to learn and work.
Both NVMI officials and community activists who called for the school’s shutdown have said the closure was months in the making.
Officials of the charter school blame the closing on accommodation problems as NVMI relied on space at several LAUSD campuses. They told EdSource that their decision to surrender the charter at the Aug. 25 meeting — where five of its 10 board members also resigned — resulted from the school’s inability to secure a single, permanent campus location.
Community advocates, however, cited a long history of…
