According to the Lassen County Times newspaper, the Westwood Unified School District has issued a Notice of Remedy to Westwood Charter School at their Feb. 17 school board meeting.

A Notice of Remedy is the first step taken to remove a charter school's charter, which has a campus in both Anderson and Cottonwood. If Westwood Charter School doesn't "remedy any alleged violations" against them, then the WUSD board will issue a Notice of Intent to Revoke, which will then be followed "by a hearing and decision by the board on revocation of the charter," according to Lassen County Times.

The alleged violations against WCS by Adele Emershaw, the interim superintendent of WUSD, fall in four different categories - "violations of the charter, failure to meet pupil outcomes, failure to meet generally accepted accounting principles or engaging in fiscal mismanagement and violations of law as provided in the California Government Code, the Brown Act, the Political Education Reform and California Education Code."

The WUSD board, which has a responsibility to oversee WCS as the chartering agency, is in a heated battle with the charter school over financial documents. WCS has Artanis of Lincoln, Calfi. (formerly known as Westwood Charter School Service, Inc.) maintaining the charter school's financial records and are refusing to release certain "private financial documents" to the WUSD board.

The charter school has told the school board they can view the documents at any time by traveling to Lincoln or going to the charter school, but they refuse to copy the documents and submit them to the board. The board needs the documents in order to understand the fiscal situation of the charter school for which they oversee.

The Lassen County Times contributed to this story.