In 2004, Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif., stopped renting classrooms to youth groups and began offering regular courses.
So it rents classrooms a couple of blocks south.
Its founder, Roman Catholic Brother Modesto Leon, says he takes students on retreats to "reflect on a higher power". In the Mid-Wilshire area, L.A. Unified's Camino Nuevo Charter Academy rents classrooms from a Jewish temple on Wilshire, but has no other relationship with it.
And in the Bronx, the Family Life Charter School pays $400,000 annually to rent classroom space from the Latino Pastoral Action Center, a "Christ-centered holistic ministry" led by the Rev. Raymond Rivera.
Family Life Charter School" in the Bronx paid "$400,000 annually to rent classroom space" from a religious ministry headed by the school's founder.
A California law that requires school districts to rent classroom space to charters often forces traditional public schools and charters to coexist in tight quarters.
Peppin said the Alhambra campus is so crowded that the district is renting classroom space from a church across the street, and all schools are using portable classrooms and trailers.
Steve Treash, the senior pastor, said that membership had doubled to 1,500 adults in the last six years, and that the church had added more Sunday services, created more parking and rented portable classrooms for its nursery school, which turned away 74 applicants for lack of space.
With $7,000 of his own money he rented a classroom, bought course materials and began his first classes.
