LAUSD WITHOUT BORDERS: What if the District erased attendance boundaries? + smf’s 2¢
A district without boundaries might be impractical. But such big-sky ideas are worth discussing.
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Los Angeles Unified school board President Monica Garcia, center, is seen on June 23, 2009 along with the Board of Education. (Los Angeles Times)
January 16, 2012 :: All too often, a child's ZIP Code is his destiny.
In Los Angeles, it is possible to discern from that five-digit number alone not only whether he lives in a safe neighborhood or whether there's a nearby park — poorer areas of the city are notably lacking in public green spaces — but also his chance, and his children's chances, of living in a different neighborhood at some point in the future. That's in large part because such children often attend low-performing neighborhood schools where the likelihood of earning a diploma hovers around 50%, and the odds of upward mobility are worse.
Los Angeles Unified school board President Monica Garcia is now asking whether all that might be changed, not by continuing
