Magnet Schools, Anti-Poverty Measures and LAUSD
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| Written by redqueeninla in Education |
Let’s do a little thinking about magnet schools in LAUSD.
Currently, there are 696 schools in LAUSD. 476 of these are classified as “Elementary”, of which 39 are financially dependent charter schools (FDC). 85 are classified as “Middle”, of which 4 are FDC. 108 are classified as “Senior”, of which 2 are “pilot” schools. 19 schools span Elementary and Middle school grades, 7 span Middle and Senior grades and 1 spans both. (table 1)
Of these 696 schools, 155 are magnets and 45 are financially dependent charters. These are distributed between board members’ districts as follows:
…and the magnet schools are very disproportionately high in number among Steve Zimmer’s district 4 and very disproportionately low among Mónica Garcia’s district 2. The distribution of financially dependent charters is just about the same between districts.
But how are these distributed according to a schools’ poverty concentration?
The schools of overwhelming poverty concentration are focused in Garcia’s district, but board members Kayser’s and Ratliff’s districts are also overwhelmed