Students Locked Out of School After Rent Dispute

Lou Danztler Preparatory Charter Middle School in South Los Angeles. (KTLA-TV)

KTLA News

2:42 p.m. PDT, May 23, 2011

SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Teachers, parents and students arrived at a South L.A. charter school Monday morning to find its doors were locked and would not be opening.

Lou Dantzler Preparatory Charter School was shut down without notice Monday, leaving 400 students out of class three weeks before the school year ends.

The Charters Boys and Girls Club, which rents the land to the organization that runs the school, says that the Inner City Education Foundation has not paid rent for six months.

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"We got a letter from them that they were under financial constraints and that going forward that they would promise to pay on time," club president Corey Dantzler told KTLA.

"I don't think it's right," parent Darren Jordan said. "Don't punish my babies for something they didn't do."

The club tells KTLA they have reached an agreement with ICEF and the school will be reopened Tuesday.

ICEF, which is run by former Mayor Richard Riordan, has not released a statement.