The Los Angeles high school at the center of a controversy over a racy photoshoot featuring Sacha Baron Cohen’s alter ego Bruno has broken away from the nation’s second-largest school district.

Birmingham High School had already been planning to become a separate charter school, but made the move before one day after officials with the Los Angeles Unified School District disciplined two administrators for violating the district’s policy on using the school’s name in the film.

The photos feature the Cohen as gay fashionista Bruno, wearing shoulder pads and tight red shorts as he poses with student football players on the school’s field.