Charter schools in CA are authorized by their local district or county office of education. IVA is authorized by the Long Beach Unified School District. This means that LBUSD verifies IVA’s compliance in financials, credentials, and policies, but that IVA operates its day-to-day operations independently from LBUSD. IVA hires their own credentialed teachers and staffs their own Principal and administrators, and office team. One exception to this independence is our special education services. For the purposes of special education, IVA is a “school of the district”, which means IVA has access to LBUSD teachers and providers in order to provide necessary services outline in student IEPs.
