Are called measure $ 3.985 bond measure, which will be paid by property taxes y, November 8th, voters who live in Los Angeles school district will be faced with a vote of four schools in Los Angeles more detail planned for them, another 25 primary schools, 160 schools that are scheduled to be built by 2012 to add to the current list of allowed. Some of the money the new school buses, repairs and other needs such as charter schools, hoping for.
The other three bond measures, Los Angeles schools, new construction and repairs that were long overdue were passed. Classes was literally falling apart, and classes year round for many schools with the program was over-crowded. First pass measures for the construction of 160 schools currently signed on the list.
Many people, however, if the fourth measure is truly needed asking. According to the Los Angeles Daily News, the traditional Los Angeles schools are slowly but steadily losing students from their rolls. Since the 2002-2003 school year, the traditional Los Angeles schools lost 4471 students. Los Angeles school officials, they expect this year to 4304 a and dropped. There are several reasons for drops in enrollment.
First, for every 20 students attending a charter or private schools instead of traditional Los Angeles schools to participate in the selection. 88 charter schools within the state public school students now about three per cent (200,000) about enrolling. About 35,000 of these students attend charter schools in Los Angeles schools. Increase the number of charter schools within the state for another 20 new charter schools this fall with plans to continue.
California Charter Schools Association, probably in Los Angeles schools within the state with an even higher percentage of public school students that charter schools will take part in ten per cent by year 2014, is predicted. They cite that the number of charter schools require three times to accommodate all students currently on waiting lists will be. With small size and flexibility of charter schools, they can be made and implemented in a very short time as a large, traditional Los Angeles schools that take years to build compared.
Los Angeles schools fall in enrollment for the second reason is the birth and life style trends:
O Los Angeles County data showed that the low hundreds of children are born each year in the county is going. The trend through the end of the decade is expected to continue.
O upper income singles and couples with few children, the neighborhood that was once inhabited by large immigrant families has taken place. Rising housing prices in Los Angeles schools, with the young families or families with many children no longer live there, move to areas with low cost of living can choose.
Also according to researchers at the Public Policy Institute of California, oh, another trend is small immigrant families. In their 2002 report, he explains that after the first generation, immigrant families have successively smaller families.
Glenn Gritzner, special assistant to Los Angeles schools, says the Los Angeles schools, took into account changes in demographics, but they serious enough to change the school building plans are not. Gritzner said, the school plans and trends / statistics through 2012 remain on course, there are still 200,000 portable classrooms and schools remained crowded Los Angeles Los Angeles schools will be abundant. In addition, trends are only current patterns that are subject to change. Measure Y certainly is warranted.
Monday, November 1, 2010
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