Clayton Valley Charter High School

Clayton Valley High School was founded in 1958, as part of the Mount Diablo Unified School District. It served areas of Clayton and Concord as a regular public high school for more than 50 years.{{cite web |url=https://claytonhistory.sharepoint.com/pages/exhibit_cvhs50th.aspx |title=Past exhibit: Clayton Valley High School: 1958-2008: Fifty Years of the Eagle Legacy |publisher=Clayton Historical Society and Museum |access-date=January 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151218085839/https://claytonhistory.sharepoint.com/pages/exhibit_cvhs50th.aspx |archive-date=December 18, 2015 }}

Converting Clayton Valley High School into a charter school was first suggested in 2010.{{cite web|last=Clayton Valley Charter High School|title=CVCHS Timeline|url=http://claytonvalley.org/timeline/|access-date=August 14, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120629230022/http://claytonvalley.org/timeline/|archive-date=June 29, 2012}} A petition was submitted to MDUSD on June 9, 2011, and the proposal was debated for several months in 2011. Part of the controversy was that CVHS students who did not wish to attend CVCHS would be sent to other MDUSD high schools. The MDUSD Board of Trustees initially approved the proposal, then reversed its decision on November 8, 2011. Supporters of the charter movement filed an appeal with the Contra Costa County Board of Education, which on January 11, 2012, overturned the district's decision and approved the charter.{{cite web|last=Mt. Diablo Unified School District|title=CVHS Transfer Letter|url=http://www.mdusd.org/Departments/SpecialEducation/Documents/Student%20Services/CVHS%20Transfer%20Letter%20020712.pdf|access-date=August 14, 2012|date=2012-02-07}}{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite news |author=Tom Barnidge |url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2012/01/18/barnidge-lessons-to-be-learned-from-clayton-valley-charter-petition/ |title=Lessons to be learned from Clayton Valley charter petition |newspaper=East Bay Times |date=August 15, 2016 |orig-year=January 18, 2012 }} As part of the transition, Clayton Valley High School officially closed on June 30, 2012. Clayton Valley Charter High School's first school year was 2012–2013; that year the school showed marked improvement on the Academic Performance Index and the football team won the divisional title for the first time.{{cite news |author=Tom Barnidge |url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2013/09/09/barnidge-complete-makeover-produces-results-at-clayton-valley-charter-high-school/ |title=Complete makeover produces results at Clayton Valley Charter High School |newspaper=East Bay Times |date=July 20, 2016 |orig-year=September 9, 2013 }}

In September 2018, a county investigation found that the two top leaders of the school, Dave Linzey, the school's Executive Director,{{Cite web|url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/05/15/two-top-administrators-husband-and-wife-depart-clayton-valley-charter-high-school/|title = Two top administrators, husband and wife, depart Clayton Valley Charter High School|date = 15 May 2018}} and his wife, Eileen Linzey, the schools Chief Program Officer, had "raked in almost $850,000 in less than two years before leaving the school". The couple had also misused funds, created job positions, and hired people in secret.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/28/audit-finds-exorbitant-salaries-misused-funds-at-clayton-valley-charter-school/|title=Audit finds steep salaries, misuse of funds at Clayton Valley charter school|date=2018-09-29|website=The Mercury News|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-01}} As of March 2019, an extensive audit spanning July 2012 to June 2018 was still underway.{{Cite web|url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/17/clayton-valley-charter-investigation-expands-as-school-weighs-governance-changes/|title=Clayton Valley Charter investigation expands as school weighs board changes|date=2019-01-17|website=East Bay Times|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-01}}

In March 2019, a Contra Costa County Superior Court ordered Clayton Valley to pay back $857,000 to Mount Diablo Unified School District for the use of their facilities from the 2013-2017 school years. "Clayton Valley High claimed it spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to upgrade amenities for its female athletes [for Title IX] and asked Mt. Diablo to cover the construction costs."{{Cite web|url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/03/18/court-rules-clayton-valley-charter-must-pay-nearly-857000-in-legal-battle-with-mt-diablo-school-district/|title=Court rules Clayton Valley Charter must pay $857,000 in legal battle with Mt. Diablo school district|date=2019-03-18|website=East Bay Times|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-01}}

In October 2021,

The Court of Appeal reversed the trial court's judgment resolving a dispute with the school district concerning the "facilities costs" for which the district may properly charge the charter school.

The court concluded that a district must exclude from the facilities costs it charges a charter school all costs of both operations and ongoing maintenance if the charter school pays those costs for its own premises. The court explained that, while the text of the regulations is ambiguous and, in part, self-contradictory, the regulatory history and the statutory scheme, as well as the common understanding of all parties prior to the trial court's unsolicited ruling, make clear that the state board did not intend such a result. In this case, Cal. Code Regs., tit. 5, section 11969.7 requires a district to exclude plant maintenance and operations costs from its facilities costs in calculating the pro rata share of a charter school that pays for its own operations and maintenance. Furthermore, section 11969.7 requires a district to exclude from facilities costs any contributions to its ongoing and major maintenance (OMM) account that are ultimately disbursed to pay costs of a type paid by the charter school. Accordingly, the court remanded for further proceedings.{{Cite web|url=https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2021/a158195.html|title=Mt. Diablo Unified School District v. Clayton Valley Charter High School, Appeals court rule in favor of CVCHS|date=2021-10-01|website=Justia|language=en-US|access-date=2023-04-05}}

Clayton Valley's teams are the Eagles, known as the Ugly Eagles.{{cite news |author=Mike Lefkow |url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/09/16/high-school-football-clayton-valley-charters-performance-even-surprises-coach/ |title=Clayton Valley Charter's performance even surprises coach |newspaper=East Bay Times |date=September 16, 2017 }}{{cite news |author=Mike Lefkow |url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/05/11/clayton-valley-ugly-eagles-honor-fifth-hall-of-fame-class/ |title=Clayton Valley High adding 14 to sports Hall of Fame |newspaper=East Bay Times |date=May 11, 2017 }}

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