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Friday, March 25, 2011

Guest Blogger: Magnet Mom, on LAUSD’s Cuts and Layoffs, and How a Los Angeles-Area Magnet School Will Cope

Guest Blogger: Magnet Mom, on LAUSD’s Cuts and Layoffs, and How a Los Angeles-Area Magnet School Will Cope

Guest Blogger: Magnet Mom, on LAUSD’s Cuts and Layoffs, and How a Los Angeles-Area Magnet School Will Cope

by CYNTHIA on MARCH 25, 2011

Magnet schools are the shining stars in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)–a district so large it dwarfs many small towns and as the second-largest school district in the nation after New York City’s, is intimidating in its size and bureaucracy. Parents go to great lengths to figure out a complicated and byzantine system that often has families applying strategically to schools that are not their first choice so they can accumulate points to send their children to a desired magnet. This is one Los