Los Angeles Unified School District

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Los Angeles Unified School District
Seal of the Los Angeles Unified School District.svg
Location
Los Angeles, surrounding areas
California
United States
District information
TypePublic
GradesPre K-12
EstablishedMarch 23, 1961; 60 years ago (1961-03-23)
Superintendent
Schools1,302[1]
Budget$7.59 billion
Students and staff
Students664,774
Teachers26,556
Other information
Teachers' unionsUnited Teachers Los Angeles, California Teachers Association
Websitelausd.net

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is a public school district in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the 2nd largest public school district in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. During the 2020–2021 school year, LAUSD served 664,774 students, including 124,400 students at independent charter schools and 50,805 adult students.[2] During the same school year, it had 25,088 teachers and 50,586 other employees.[2] It is the second largest employer in Los Angeles County, after the county government.[3] The revised school district operating budget for 2020–2021 was $8.55 billion.[2]

The school district consists of Los Angeles and all or portions of several adjoining Southern California cities. LAUSD has its own police force, the Los Angeles School Police Department, which was established in 1948 to provide police services for LAUSD schools.[4] The LAUSD enrolls a third of the preschoolers in Los Angeles County, and operates almost as many buses as the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.[5] The LAUSD school construction program rivals the Big Dig in terms of expenditures, and LAUSD cafeterias serve about 500,000 meals a day, rivaling the output of local McDonald's restaurants.[5]

The LAUSD has been criticized in the past for extremely crowded schools with large class sizes, high drop-out[6] and expulsion rates, low academic performance in many schools, poor maintenance and incompetent administration.[7][8] In 2007, LAUSD's dropout rate was 26 percent for grades 9 through 12.[9] More recently, there are signs that the district is showing improvement, both in terms of dropout and graduation rates.[10] An ambitious renovation program intended to help ease the overcrowded conditions has been completed.[11] As part of its school-construction project, LAUSD opened two high schools (Santee Education Complex and South East) in 2005 and four high schools (Arleta, Contreras Learning Complex, Panorama, and East Valley) in 2006.[12]

Governance[]

LAUSD headquarters just west of Downtown Los Angeles

Los Angeles Unified School District is governed by a seven-member Board of Education, which appoints a superintendent, who runs the daily operations of the district. Members of the board are elected directly by voters from separate districts that encompass communities that the LAUSD serves. The district's current superintendent is Megan K. Reilly. She has led Los Angeles Unified since June 2021. She was preceded by superintendent Austin Beutner.

The seven current members of the Board of Education include Dr. George J. McKenna III (District 1), Moníca García (District 2), Scott M. Schmerelson (District 3), Nick Melvoin (District 4), Jackie Goldberg (District 5), Board President Kelly Gonez (District 6), and Tanya Ortiz Franklin (District 7).

In the March 2015 Los Angeles City Council and School Board elections, voters approved Charter Amendment 2, which allowed the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education to change their election dates to even-numbered years. It took effect with the March 2020 primary election and the runoff in November 2020.

Every LAUSD household or residential area is zoned to an elementary school, a middle school and a high school, in one of the six local school districts. Each local school district is run by an area superintendent and is headquartered within the district.

History[]

Historical population
Year
Student
Enrollment
Percent
change
1993–1994 639,129—    
1994–1995 632,973−1.0%
1995–1996 647,612+2.3%
1996–1997 667,305+3.0%
1997–1998 680,430+2.0%
1998–1999 695,885+2.3%
1999–2000 710,007+2.0%
2000–2001 721,346+1.6%
2001–2002 735,058+1.9%
2002–2003 746,852+1.6%
2003–2004 747,009+0.0%
2004–2005 741,367−0.8%
2005–2006 727,319−1.9%
2006–2007 707,626−2.7%
2007–2008 693,680−2.0%
2008–2009 687,534−0.9%
2009–2010 670,745−2.4%
2010–2011 667,251−0.5%
2011-2012 662,140−0.8%
2012-2013 655,494−1.0%
2013-2014 653,826−0.3%
2014-2015 646,683−1.1%
2015-2016 639,337−1.1%
2016-2017 633,621−0.9%
2017-2018 621,414−1.9%
Source: [13]

The Los Angeles Unified School District was once composed of two separate districts: the Los Angeles City School District, formed on September 19, 1853, and the Los Angeles City High School District, formed in 1890. The latter provided 9–12 educational services, while the former did so for K-8. On July 1, 1961, the Los Angeles City School District and the Los Angeles City High School District merged, forming the Los Angeles Unified School District.[14]

The annexation left the Topanga School District and the Las Virgenes Union School District (then renamed to the West County Union High School District) as separate remnants of the high school district. The high school district changed its name to the West County Union High School District. LAUSD annexed the Topanga district on July 1, 1962. Since the Las Virgenes Union School District had the same boundary as the remaining West County Union High School District, on July 1, 1962, West County ceased to exist.[14]

Desegregation[]

In 1961, Jackson vs. Pasadena School District was a local predecessor of Crawford v. Board of Ed. Of Los Angeles. Jar R. Jackson and Lucia Jackson, noticed that the local Washington Junior High School zone in the district was separated between white and black students. They filed a lawsuit against the district spearheaded by attorney Samuel Sheats, the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Pasadena. In 1963, at the Supreme Court of California, the Jacksons won through an appeal after the Pasadena Superior Court dismissed their complaint. The court ruled typically for the times, that school boards needed to refrain from intentional actions towards segregating students despite the reasons for it.[15] However, what was different about this ruling is that it demanded an active integration of school that had a substantial racial difference.[16] A setback to this ruling, as well as other rulings in Los Angeles City School District and surrounding areas, was the language used to ask for integration.[17] The language implied that integration was required if it was “reasonably feasible.” This caveat was used by local school districts to claim integration was not feasible due to financial or other limitations

In 1963, a lawsuit, Crawford v. Board of Ed. of Los Angeles[18] was filed to end segregation in the district. The California Supreme Court required the district to come up with a plan in 1977. The board returned to court with what the court of appeal years later would describe as "one of if not the most drastic plan of mandatory student reassignment in the nation."[18] A desegregation busing plan was developed to be implemented in the 1978 school year. Two lawsuits to stop the enforced busing plan, both titled Bustop, Inc. v. Los Angeles Bd. of Ed., were filed by the group Bustop Inc. and were petitioned to the United States Supreme Court.[19][20] The petitions to stop the busing plan were subsequently denied by Justice Rehnquist and Justice Powell. California Constitutional Proposition 1, which mandated that busing follow the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution passed in 1979 with 70% of the vote. The Crawford v. Board of Ed. of Los Angeles lawsuit was heard in the Supreme Court in 1982.[21] The Supreme Court upheld the decision that Proposition 1 was constitutional.

After the Crawford v. Board of Ed. Of Los Angeles was processed in Los Angeles, and just as the outcome was upheld by the Supreme Court, Judge Paul Egly, created the Los Angeles Monitoring Committee (May 1978).[22][23] Helen V. Smookler was the executive director of the committee and she managed 12 members from the community, ranging from all diverse backgrounds representative of the Los Angeles demographics. Each member spearheaded a sub-committee that was charged with overseeing and working on sustaining the desegregation of "all senior high schools, majority of junior highs, and most elementary schools."[24] The committee’s Integration project master plan (1979-1980) expanded beyond the Brown ruling because Los Angeles was a hub of multiculturalism. Hence, the “(1) logical and sensible, and (2) economical and inexpensive in time and effort and dollars” approach is to desegregate minority school pupils and integrate them into other schools.[24] A goal of the integration process was to have small class sizes so that the diverse student population would have more individualized support when dealing with possible racial differences. By the mid-1980s the desegregation process was in compliance with the Supreme Court ruling and California propositions.[25][26][27] However, some would say that Los Angeles is struggling with segregation again due to socioeconomic impact on minority communities, the housing crisis, and an increasingly tense political climate.

Labor relations[]

Historically, unions have long played an important role in the operation and governance of L.A. Schools. These include the United Teachers of Los Angeles, (UTLA) which currently represents over 35,000 teachers and the Associated Administrators of Los Angeles (AALA).[28][29]

On April 13, 1970, UTLA members walked out for the first time on what was predicted to be a five-week strike.[30] Teachers demanded raises in top level salaries from $13,650 to approximately 20,000, reductions in class size and increased spending on reading and other programs. After 23 days, the strike ended on May 13, 1970. Teachers obtained a 5% pay raise, creation of advisory panels and new reading programs.

On May 30, 1989, approximately 20,000 UTLA members went out on strike for higher pay and more administrative control.[31] [32] [33] The strike lasted nine days starting on May 30, 1989. The months preceding the strike were highly contentious. Numerous negotiation tactics were deployed by both sides including teacher demonstrations, threats to withhold grades, threats to dock teacher pay and many hard fought court battles. Union demands included pay increases and better school conditions. Thousands of substitute teachers were mobilized in preparation for the strike, and teachers prepared by saving money to endure a long walk-out. Many of the city's 600 schools reportedly remained open but with lower attendance. The district reported that 8,642 teachers crossed picket lines, and public rhetoric by both sides was critical and intense. [34] After negotiations, a settlement was reached and a three-year contract produced. Both sides claimed victory. Despite successful teacher pay raises obtained in the settlement, a massive economic recession in 1990 caused negotiations in 1991 to focus on preventing massive layoffs due to hundreds of millions in budget deficits.[35] Salaries were cut to avoid layoffs, ameliorating the positive results of the 1989 strike.

In 2009, UTLA members authorized a one-day strike. [36]

In September of 2018, 98% of UTLA members authorized a strike over numerous disputes and a failure of months of contract negotiations. These included familiar issues such as salary increases, more librarians and nurses, and classroom size reduction. However, a new issue also predominated the discussions -- i.e., authority and control over the proliferation of charter schools.[37] Fact-finding efforts took several months, but resulted in a ruling stating that the union had not bargained in good faith on several of the non-pay related matters.[38][39] The fact-finding report failed to resolve matters and UTLA stated that a strike would proceed on January 10, 2019.[40] On January 14, 2019, 30,000 teachers walked out in what was the first teacher's strike in Los Angeles since 1989.[41]

Dress codes and school uniforms[]

Since 1995, uniforms or standardized dress codes are used in most elementary and middle schools as well as a few high schools.[citation needed]

Reform[]

Hamilton High School

Various attempts at program reform have been attempted. In one reform, individual schools were given more authority over day-to-day decisions and public school choice, authored by school board member Yolie Flores was implemented. In the 1990s, the Los Angeles Education Alliance for Restructuring Now (LEARN) and the Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project (LAAMP) were created, giving principals even more authority to make changes in curriculum hopefully benefiting students. Regardless, student achievement failed to increase.[42]

Later attempted reform led to the creation of eleven minidistricts with decentralized management and their own individual superintendents.[43] Due to the cost of this additional bureaucracy, then Superintendent Romer called for reversing the measure and re-merging the minidistricts. United Teachers Los Angeles, the union representing LAUSD teachers, supported this plan. Eight numbered Local Districts arose from the merger replacing the eleven districts.

Circa 1993 about 200 LAUSD schools were required to continue year round schedules while 540 LAUSD schools had year-round schedules but were allowed to change them to traditional schedules. Due to community outcry, 539 of them reverted, especially those in the San Fernando Valley and Westside areas and several in the Harbor area.[44]

Consultants[]

LAUSD school bus

Although grappling with economic shortfalls, the Los Angeles Unified School District continues to employ consultants. In 2008, the district employed more than 800 consultants – paid, on average, more than twice as much as regular employees – to oversee school construction. The Facilities Services Division spends about $182 million on its 849 consultants, almost $215,000 each. The division's regular employees are paid about $99,000 each. At the time, Senior Deputy Superintendent Ramon Cortines said that consultants may get the work done quickly and correctly, but said he is also concerned about the district's reliance on outside workers. "We need to look at it, to reduce the number of consultants," he said. In the seven main branches of the Facilities Services Division, there are 3,479 district employees who earn a total of about $347 million, according to district records. The division employs 849 consultants who earn a total of about $182.6 million.[45]

The practice has prompted concerns and a growing number of inquiries from the district's board members and LAUSD's bond oversight committee. Some district officials defend the practice, saying use of consultants ebbs and flows with the various stages of construction.

Efforts to reform the Facilities Services Division by Superintendent Ramon Cortines, from 2009–2010, has continued to result in union complaints and audit issues regarding consultants. Former Chief of Facilities James Sohn, hired on 2009, led the effort to reduce consultant payments by 20% and increase consultant company competition. However, this effort has been ridiculed by audits from Los Angeles County Controller Wendy Greuel[46] and confidential internal audits by the Office of Inspector General in LAUSD[47] that consistently found lax oversight and conflicts of interest. The confidential report by the OIG office, prompted by whistleblowers, found “irregularities in $65 million worth of contracts.” This includes costs that exceed pre-approved amounts by 50% and contracts worth $31 million without school board approval. James Sohn’s declaration to decrease 20% consultants costs were also shown to be disingenuous by the OIG audit report, which found many consultants switched companies with a higher billing rate, offsetting the 20% reduction and companies increased hourly billing rate prior to the 20% reduction, therefore negating any difference. James Sohn disputes these charges.

James Sohn has also introduced a new contract type, called Agency Construction Manager (Agency CM) which claim to offer many benefits, including maximizing consultant services, lower costs, increase productivity and increase small business competition (see Construction Management).[48] Agency CM is an attempt to replace the old consultant model of billing for an hourly rate in favor of a “lump sum task order”. Task orders are designed to provide payment for completion of a particular task, regardless of the number of hours worked. Criticisms with this include the lack of adequate tracking of consultant employees. Comparing district to consultant staffing would not be accurate. These contracts were also cited in the confidential OIG report as “vague” in detail.[47] Teamster union officials have also complained about layoffs within Facilities that have resulted in massive district demotions and layoffs.[49] Teamster representative, Connie Oser, has alleged that district staff have been removed while consultant contracts have been continuously and repeatedly approved by the board, consultant employees shuffled between companies, and the use of Agency CM, which enables tracking of consultants, difficult. Superintendent Ramon Cortines and former Chief Facilities Sohn have both claimed consultants have been reduced in far greater numbers than district staff. This claim cannot be verified since the use of Agency CM contracts.

Allegations have also surfaced against James Sohn’s management staff. Many of his Executive level staff have been prior consultants. James Sohn has also been criticized for his attempt to purge all non-legally required documents in each employee computer system.[50] After Teamsters union complaints, LAUSD halted this practice. James Sohn claimed this is a customary process done by construction programs. He did not provide any evidence to support this claim.

21st century[]

The High School of Performing Arts opened in 2009

Crime and lawsuits[]

On January 5, 2008, Sandy Banks of the Los Angeles Times reported that vandals and thieves targeted LAUSD schools in various neighborhoods during holidays. Banks said that the lack of police presence allows thieves to target schools.[51]

Thirty-three-year-old Alberto Gutierrez sued the Los Angeles Unified School District, saying that the principal of the San Fernando High School, where he was assigned, retaliated against him when Gutierrez asked students to "think critically" about the role of the United States in the Iraq War. Jose Luis Rodriguez, the principal, says that he spoke to Gutierrez because some parents did not appreciate Gutierrez requiring students to attend off-campus screenings of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Crash.[52]

On January 31, 2012, police arrested Mark Berndt, a veteran teacher at Miramonte Elementary School, and charged him with 23 counts of lewd conduct, which included taking pictures of students who were being spoon-fed his semen. Another teacher, Martin Springer, was charged with fondling a 7-year-old girl in his class.[53] A third teacher, a female, was accused of "aiding and abetting" Mark Berndt by sending him victims.[54] The entire staff at Miramonte was subsequently replaced.[55]

That same year, on December 18, 2012, a jury awarded a $23 million settlement to a 14-year-old boy who had been molested repeatedly by his fifth grade teacher at Queen Anne Place Elementary School in the Mid-Wilshire area, one of the largest awards in the history of the school system.[56] Forest Stobbe, a long time veteran teacher of Queen Place Elementary pleaded no contest to two counts of lewd acts on a child and repeated sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14 and was sentenced to 16 years in prison. The boy in question was 10 at the time of the abuse.[57] At the time of trial, the boy's attorney, Stephen Estey, asked for a $25 million verdict citing the school district's history of negligence, ignoring, "a number of red flags and complaints by other victims and as a result Stobbe grew bolder and inflicted a lifetime of harm on our defenseless client."[58] Although Stobbe had no official criminal record, the Jury ruled that the school district, "should have heeded complaints that preceded the molestation."[59] A previous female student complained Stobbe fondled her buttocks, and two years prior to his arrest Stobbe had been seen with a female student alone in his car. Among the insurmountable evidence against Stobbe was a jar of petroleum jelly on his desk that tested positive for the boy's DNA. The Los Angeles Unified School District was found 30% liable for the damages, and was responsible for $6.9 million of the final settlement.[57]

2004: Payroll system[]

In 2004, a new payroll system project began, with Deloitte Consulting engaged to customize software purchased from SAP AG. The Deloitte contract was $55,000,000 with the total cost estimated to be $95,000,000.[8] The system went live in January 2007. As of 2008, a number of problems have been experienced with some staff getting overpaid and some underpaid, and some not getting paid at all. Deloitte representatives and District officials have pointed fingers at each other.[8] Some of the problems have been software and hardware, some have been due to the complexity of labor agreements, salary scales, work rules and job assignments within the district.[8]

2006: Assembly Bill 1381[]

After his election to Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa advocated bringing control of the public school system under his office, removing power from the Board of Education.[60] This sparked some protest from teachers, LAUSD board members and many residents of communities not within the City of Los Angeles but served by LAUSD.

In August 2006, after a compromise was brokered which allowed the mayor large control while retaining an elected school board and allowing input to be provided from surrounding cities, California State Assembly Bill 1381 passed, giving the mayor a measure of control over district administration. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the law on September 18, 2006. The Board of Education immediately filed suit to block the law, claiming that it violates the state constitution by allowing a local government to take over an educational agency.

AB 1381 was required to sunset on January 1, 2013, unless extended by the Legislature.[61] On December 21, 2006, AB 1381 was ruled unconstitutional. The mayor appealed, but later dropped his appeal as two of the candidates he supported for school board were elected, essentially giving him indirect control over the school district.[62]

2013: iPad project[]

In 2013, the District approved a $1.3 billion plan with Apple and Pearson PLC to provide every student, teacher, and administrator in the district with an iPad.[63] Under the plan, Apple would provide the iPad hardware, and Pearson would provide the software curriculum.[63] The District abandoned the project a little over a year later after an investment of over $30 million, as many teachers were not trained on the devices and Pearson delivered only part of the desired curriculum.[63][64] The failure of the project contributed to the resignation of the superintendent, John Deasy, after it was discovered he was involved very closely with Apple and Pearson during the bidding process.[64] In 2015, the parties agreed to a $6.4 million settlement, providing cash and hardware to the District.[63]

2015: Hoax threat[]

On December 15, 2015, the district received an emailed threat, thought by some officials to be credible, causing the closure of all Los Angeles Unified Schools.[65] It was later judged by Los Angeles police to have been a hoax.[66] The email was traced to an IP address in Frankfurt, Germany.[67] The Los Angeles Times reported that the threat did not necessarily originate from an IP address in Frankfurt, Germany.[68] After the threat had been received at 10 p.m. the previous day, the decision to close the schools was made at 6 a.m. by Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Ramon C. Cortines. Cortines had quietly submitted his resignation just four days earlier, but stepped back into authority when the crisis emerged.[69]

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti stated that because he does not control the schools, that Superintendent Ramon Cortines, not he, made the decision. People in charge concurred that their response could have been better organized. Cortines stated that he should have been contacted much less than 7 hours after receiving the threat. Though the school board president contacted police, Cortines was not contacted until they were unable to rule out a real attack, giving him minutes before school bus drivers left to make the important decision.[70]

Former Los Angeles Police Chief and current New York Police Commissioner William Bratton referred to the closure as a significant overreaction. "We can not allow ourselves to raise levels of fear." He also suggested the incident could have been inspired by the TV series Homeland.

2017: Criticism of teacher training workshop[]

In 2017, the non-profit The Israel Group submitted a complaint to the LAUSD regarding a workshop, “Learning About Islam and the Arab World,” that the United States branch of the Fellowship for Reconciliation (FORUSA) presented for teachers.[71] FORUSA actively promotes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement,[72] a perspective shaping its efforts to influence educators about the Middle East. One attendee of the workshop told the Jewish Journal, "We are being told that the Palestinians are the victims and the Jews are the oppressors, categorically and totally... And we are being told that Hamas is not a terrorist group; Hamas is a noble entity defending the rights of Palestinians.”[73] In a news release from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the human rights organization further noted that "FORUS is closely aligned with CAIR, a US-based organization that has been linked to Hamas terrorist group."[74]

Following greater public awareness of the workshop — the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)[75] also spoke out, saying the workshop materials featured "substantial misrepresentations and distortions of established historical facts, omissions of relevant facts, and inflammatory language" – Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman contacted LAUSD. After reviewing the workshop's handouts, Sherman wrote, “[The Workshop] material is not just false, but is anti-Semitic and should have raised immediate red flags with LAUSD… I am concerned that LAUSD would promote an education program on the Middle East established by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FORUSA), an organization who openly supports Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), a highly polarizing movement that singles out Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, and has led to anti-Semitic hostility. The BDS movement is adverse to the foreign policy of the United States.”[76]

Areas served[]

Maywood Academy High School
Leo Politi Elementary School, Los Angeles, California
Atwater Avenue Elementary School, photographed in 1926
Tenth Street School

LAUSD serves all of the following communities:

  • Bell
  • Cudahy
  • Florence
  • Gardena
  • Huntington Park
  • Lomita
  • Los Angeles – Including, but not limited to:
    • List of districts and neighborhoods of Los Angeles
    • excluding a small portion of West Hills which is in the Las Virgenes Unified School District
    • Some areas of Los Angeles with Beverly Hills addresses, i.e. Beverly Hills Post Office, are located in LAUSD
  • Marina del Rey
  • Maywood
  • San Fernando
  • Topanga
  • Universal City
  • Vernon
  • View Park
  • Walnut Park
  • West Athens
  • Westmont
  • West Hollywood

and portions of the following communities:

  • Carson
  • Commerce
  • East Los Angeles (other parts of East Los Angeles are served by Montebello Unified School District)
  • Hawthorne
  • Inglewood
  • Long Beach
  • Monterey Park
  • Rancho Palos Verdes (most other parts of Rancho Palos Verdes are served by the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District)
  • South Gate (eastern portion of South Gate is served by the Paramount Unified School District)
  • West Compton
  • Willowbrook

List of schools and properties[]

Main article: List of Los Angeles Unified School District schools

LAUSD has 219 year-round schools and 439 schools on the traditional calendar. In 2005, 47% of all LAUSD students were enrolled in year-round schools,[77] but that has declined with construction of new schools and reduced enrollment as a result of the economic recession, such that in the 2012–13 school year, only three schools were on a year-round schedule.[78]

Edward R. Roybal Learning Center[]

Edward R. Roybal Learning Center near Downtown Los Angeles

The Edward R. Roybal Learning Center (previously known as Belmont Learning Center or Vista Hermosa Learning Center), in the densely populated Westlake district just west of downtown, was originally envisioned as a mixed-use education and retail complex to include several schools, shops and a public park. After more than a decade of delays stemming from the environmental review process, ground was broken for construction in 1995. Midway through construction, it was discovered that explosive methane and toxic hydrogen sulfide were seeping from an old underground oil field. Later, an active surface fault was found under one of the completed buildings, necessitating its removal. The LAUSD had spent an estimated $175 million on the project by 2004, with an additional $110 million budgeted for cleanup efforts. The total cost is estimated by LAUSD at $300 million. Critics have speculated that it may end up costing closer to $500 million. Designed by architectural firm DLR Group WWCOT, the school opened in 2008 as the "Edward R. Roybal Learning Center".

Ambassador Hotel (Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools)[]

Another controversial project has been the development of the Ambassador Hotel property on Wilshire Boulevard in densely populated Koreatown. The LAUSD fought over the landmark with, among others, Donald Trump (with the legal battle dating back to 1989). In 2001, the LAUSD finally obtained legal ownership of the property. Plans to demolish the building, the site where Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot, were met with strong opposition from preservationists. In August 2005, LAUSD settled a lawsuit over the matter that had been filed by numerous preservationist groups: most of the Ambassador complex would be destroyed, but the Paul Williams-designed coffee shop and the Coconut Grove nightclub would be preserved[citation needed], with the Grove serving as the auditorium for a new school to be built on the site. Demolition began in late 2005 and the last section of the hotel fell on January 16, 2006.

The project construction became the most expensive school in the United States. It has three Elementary schools, three Middle schools, and four high schools including LAHSA. The Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools opened in September 2010 at the cost of $578 million to serve 4,200 K-12 students. Costs in 2010 were $350 per 1 square foot (0.093 m2). Amidst great controversy the district attributed the high costs to material, land prices, seismic code, and unionized labor.[79]

Santee Dairy[]

In 2005, soil samples taken at the LAUSD-owned site of a former Santee Dairy facility in South Los Angeles found high levels of carcinogens in soil used as foundation fill for a high school then under construction. A small controversy brewed on the matter, with some neighborhood activists and LAUSD critics claiming a repeat of the Belmont Learning Center fiasco. State scientists determined that the contaminated soil was sufficiently deep to pose no threat to students on the site, and the now-called Santee Education Complex opened its doors in July 2005.

Park Avenue Elementary School[]

On February 9, 2000, the Los Angeles Weekly published an article about the environmental troubles of Park Avenue Elementary School.[80]

Metro Charter Elementary School[]

Metro Charter Elementary School (also known as MCES) was a public charter elementary school that was embroiled in controversy due to its constant movement and lack of a permanent campus in Downtown Los Angeles. It was started by a group of parents who wanted to created a school that was in the Downtown area and had the effort led by Simon Ha and Mike McGalliard.[81][82][83][84] On September 3, 2013, the school was established in the California Hospital Medical Center in South Park.[82][85][86]

The site was only meant to be temporary, and the school suffered from overcrowding at the Medical Center due to the growing student population, so the school searched for a new site. In 2016, Metro Charter expressed interest to co-locate the school with Castelar Elementary in Chinatown for the 2016-17 school year, but faced opposition from the parents, community stakeholders, and teachers of the school. [87][88] Many parents of Metro Charter also opposed the plan, as the plan only assigned five classrooms with Castelar out of the twelve classrooms requested, and proposed to split Metro Charter into three separate campuses for the seven other classrooms.[89] Because of the opposition to the plan on both sides, Metro Charter announced that they would not co-locate to Castelar, stating that the move would be "neither logistically nor financially viable."[88][89]

For the 2017-18 year, Metro Charter chose to split the campus so that half would go to 700 Wilshire and the other half would go to the Ketchum-Downtown YMCA building, both in the Financial District.[90][91][92] The school secured a deal with 700 Wilshire, but failed to acquire a deal with the Ketchum-Downtown YMCA building, as the YMCA lacked permits for the school. The school then signed a lease with Pleasant Hills Baptist Church in Leimert Park to house the lower grades.

In 2018, Metro Charter announced that the school would be relocating to 2635 Pasadena Avenue in Lincoln Heights after signing a lease for two years. The Metro Charter board approved signing the two-year lease with the Los Angeles Boys & Girls Club for the new location on May 22, while also voting to terminate the leases at 700 Wilshire and at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. [93] On July 8, 2019, Metro Charter officially closed, with the faculty citing declining enrollment as the reason for its closure.[83] Many of its founders and helpers expressed sadness about the school's closure, including Councilman José Huizar, who advocated for the charter's approval. He has called for LAUSD to "help find sites and address education options within Downtown to meet the growth of the Central City."[83] Simon Ha, one of the original founders, has stated that "the irony is that the growth and popularity of Downtown — everyone wants to be here! — made it impossible for Metro Charter to remain in Downtown — we can’t afford to be here."[94]

Ellen Ochoa Learning Center[]

Employee housing[]

Between 2009 and 2019, the district built three employee housing units in Los Angeles with federal tax credits:Norwood Learning Village, Selma Community Housing complex in Hollywood,[95] and Sage Park Apartments on the northern end of the Gardena High School property in Harbor Gateway:[96] the three together have 185 units. While the units were intended for teaching staff, the requirements of the tax credit-built complexes needing to house people making below certain salary targets made teachers ineligible for living in these complexes. Therefore Norwood and Sage Park housed other district employees including assistants to teachers, bus drivers, and staff in student dining halls; these workers make up about 50% of the residents of Selma.[95]

Superintendents[]

Main article:

United States Academic Decathlon[]

The following LAUSD schools have won the United States Academic Decathlon:

  • John Marshall High School, 1987, 1995
  • William H. Taft High School, 1989, 1994, 2006
  • El Camino Real High School, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2014, 2018
  • Granada Hills Charter High School, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019

Magnet programs[]

As of January 2014, LAUSD has 191 magnet schools with about 53,500 students. In 2012, the school district admitted 16,000 new students into these magnet schools out of a pool of 66,000 applications. Cara Mia DiMassa of the Los Angeles Times said that the schools, "designed to be among the best campuses in the district, mostly are as competitive for applicants as any popular private school."[97]

LAUSD's magnet schools include gifted and highly gifted schools, as well as a large number of magnet programs focusing on students with specific interests, including multiple arts-related magnet programs, multiple science-related magnet programs, multiple pre-law magnet programs, and multiple pre-medical magnet programs. There are also dozens of specialty magnet programs for students with other specific interests.[98]

The district assigns points to prospective applicants based on certain conditions: students who have applied for magnet schools before receive additional points, students who live in overcrowded zoned schools receive points, and students who live in mostly minority communities receive points. In addition, the magnet schools have racial quotas. Each school is to have 30–40% non-Hispanic White students and 60–70% minority students. As of 2011, within LAUSD, 90% of the overall student body consists of racial and ethnic minorities.[97]

The magnet schools were established in 1977 as an alternative to forced desegregation busing. The racial quota system was devised at a time when the integration focus was on making Black and White students attend school together. Since then, the district demographics changed.[97]

As of January 2005, of the Hispanic students in LAUSD, 1.2% attended magnet schools. Of the White students in LAUSD, 16% attended magnet schools. Of all magnet school students, 46.5% are Hispanic, 20% are White, 19.2% are Black, 10.2% are Asian, 3.6% are Filipino, and .6% are other. The overall LAUSD student body was 72.8% Hispanic, 11.6% Black, 9% White, 3.8% Asian, 2.2% Filipino, and .6% other.[99]

Notable staff members[]

Main article: List of Los Angeles Unified School District people

Notable teachers[]

  • Fay Allen was the first African-American woman to be elected to the Los Angeles Unified School District board.[100]
  • Migdia Chinea, Cuban-American screenwriter, has taught English, Physical Education, Spanish, Art, Social Sciences and other subjects at various LAUSD schools in the Central District.[33]
  • Jaime Escalante taught students calculus at Garfield High School in the East Los Angeles CDP of Los Angeles County for many years, as dramatized in the movie Stand and Deliver.
  • Ezola B. Foster, conservative African-American political activist, taught in various LAUSD schools from the 1960s until the early 1990s.
  • Scott Perry, former American football defensive back in the National Football League, played professionally for the Cincinnati Bengals. Teaches first grade at Point Fermin Elementary School[101]
  • Essie Mae Washington-Williams, daughter of Strom Thurmond, taught typing in the district from 1967 until 1997.

Notable alumni[]

  • Jordan Farmar (born 1986) - basketball player
  • Richard Steven Valenzuela (Ritchie Valens) - Mexican American singer, songwriter, and guitarist

Transportation[]

LAUSD has a bus fleet consisting of the following buses:

LAUSD Bus Fleet
Bus Type In Service Confirmed Orders Rows Passenger Capacity Notes
Passengers Engine Type
Gen 2 Blue Bird All American FE Unknown — 9 Unknown (wheelchair lifts equipped) Unknown To be phased out.
Gen 3 Blue Bird All American RE Unknown — 14 84 Unknown In limited service
Gen 4 2006 Blue Bird All American RE Unknown — 13 78 7.2L Caterpillar C7 Turbo Diesel
Gen 6 Blue Bird All American RE Unknown — 10 Unknown (wheelchair lifts equipped) Cummins-Westport ISL-G CNG
Gen 2 Blue Bird Vision Propane Unknown — 9 Unknown GM 8.1L Vortec/L18 V8
Gen 3 Blue Bird Vision Propane Unknown — 9 Unknown Ford 6.8l Triton V10
1995 Blue Bird International 3800 Unknown — 7 42 7.6L Navistar DT 466E To be phased out.
Blue Bird International S-Series Unknown — Unknown Unknown 7.6L Navistar DT 466E To be phased out.
International RE (Unknown generation) Unknown — 14 84 7.6L Navistar DT 466E
Type C Electric School Bus Unknown Unknown 11 77 DANA TM4 SumoElectric
Starcraft Quest XL (Ford F-59) Unknown Unknown 8 47 Electric
1994 Thomas Ford B-700F Unknown — 7 Unknown (wheelchair lifts equipped) 5.9L Cummins ISB L6 Diesel To be phased out.
1994 Thomas Saf-T-Liner ER Unknown — 14 84 6.6L Caterpillar 3116 L6 Diesel In limited service
Thomas Saf-T-Liner C2 CNG Unknown — 8 Unknown Cummins-Westport ISB-G/B6.7N
Thomas Saf-T-Liner HDX CNG Unknown — 14 84 Cummins-Westport ISL-G
Wayne International S-Series Unknown — Unknown Unknown 7.6L Navistar DT 466E To be phased out.
Total Unknown TBA


Historical bus fleet

LAUSD Historical Bus Fleet
Bus Type Total in fleet Introduced Retired Rows Passenger Capacity Notes
Passengers Engine Type
Thomas GMC Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
Chevrolet Mid-Bus Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
International Harvester Loadstar Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
Crown Supercoach Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Detroit Diesel 6-71T
Crown Supercoach Series II Unknown Unknown Unknown 11 Unknown Detroit Diesel 6V92
Gillig Transit Coach School Bus Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Detroit Diesel 6-71
Gillig Phantom School Bus Unknown Unknown Unknown 11 Unknown Detroit Diesel 6V92
Total Unknown TBA

All District High School Honor Band[]

The All District High School Honor Band members are invited in September each year to audition for the band, which includes only brass and percussion instruments. The group has marched in every Tournament of Roses Parade since 1973. The All District High School Band allows members the opportunity to perform in Bandfest, at Disneyland, and on other events. The 300 members are required "to maintain a 2.5 or greater grade point average, and stay in good standing with home school program."[102]

Originally organized to meet the minimum requirement of having 100 members on the band to perform in the Rose Parade, the Honor Band has performed at Anaheim Stadium, Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood Christmas Lane Parade (now Hollywood Christmas Parade), Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Rams and Raiders football games, and Super Bowls XI, XIV, and XVII. They were present at the Governor's Inauguration in Sacramento, XXIV Olympiad Salute, and the World Series during the past 25 years. In May 1986 the band traveled to Atlanta to participate in Coca-Cola's Centennial Celebration, and at the end of the month, participated in Hands Across America where the band was the "anchor" at the event's Western terminus at the RMS Queen Mary pier in Long Beach, California.

Questioning of school librarians[]

In May 2011, attorneys for LAUSD began scrutinizing the practice of their own teacher-librarians in an attempt to balance the district's budget. Librarians who could demonstrate they had taught within the past five years could avoid layoff by being classified as teachers.[103][104][105]

Demographics[]

As of the 2011-2012 school year, in its enrollment breakdown by ethnic group, 72.3% of its students were of Hispanic origin, of any race; 10.1% of the student population was of Non-Hispanic white ancestry; 9.6% of its students were African American, while Asian American students comprised 6%, including a 2% of students of Filipino origin formed 2.1% of the student population and Native Americans and Pacific Islanders together comprised less than 1%.[106] Black students were six times more likely to be arrested or given a ticket than white students, which contributed to the decision in 2014 to decriminalise school discipline so that minor offences would be referred to school staff rather than prosecuted.[107]

See also[]

  • Highly Gifted Magnet
  • List of high schools in Los Angeles County, California
  • List of Los Angeles Unified School District schools
  • List of Los Angeles Unified School District people

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Further reading[]

    • Donovan, John T. “A Tale of Two Strikes: The Formation of United Teachers-Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Teachers Strikes of 1970 and 1989,” Southern California Quarterly Vol. 81. No. 3 (Fall 1999), 377-496.
    • Donovan, John T., “Helen Bernstein and United Teachers-Los Angeles, 1990-1996,” Southern California Quarterly Vol. 83. No. 4 (Winter 2001), 399-414.
    • Raftery, Judith. Land of Fair Promise: Politics and Reform in Los Angeles Schools, 1885-1941 (Stanford University Press, 1992).
    • Ravitch, Diane. Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools (Vintage Books, 2014).
    • Ryan, Howard. Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing against the Corporate Juggernaut (Monthly Review Press, 2016).
  • (in Japanese) (with English abstract) Tanaka, Makiko. "The English Language Development Program of the Los Angeles Unified School District : Implications for Elementary School English Education in Japan." (カリフォルニア州ロサンゼルス統一学区における英語教育の試みと日本における小学校英語教育への示唆, Archive) (神田外語大学紀要). Kanda University of International Studies. 2009, Volume 21.

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