2 SITES PROPOSED TO EASE CROWDING AT POLY HIGH.Byline: Robert Monroe Staff Writer At Francis Polytechnic High School, already hundreds of students over capacity, school district leaders proposed two possible sites Monday as remedies for overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. . Some 150 parents, teachers and students expressed anger at the thought of Poly becoming a year-round school Year-Round School is the operation of educational institutions on a calendar-system that tracks students into class schedules throughout the entire calendar year. A primary motivation is that higher student throughput is accomplished via more effective scheduling of school and dismay at the possibility that 26 more bungalows could take up precious space on the campus. ``It's not fair to our students,'' said Hector Colon, chairman of the United Teachers Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. union chapter on campus. ``They're not getting the same education students in the West Valley are.'' The Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. is scrambling to find viable sites for new campuses to meet a June 2000 deadline. If it misses that deadline it could lose out on as much as $1.5 billion in Proposition 1A funding from the state. Board of Education member Caprice ca·price n. 1. a. An impulsive change of mind. b. An inclination to change one's mind impulsively. c. Young, hosting the third in a series of community site-identification meetings, said a Robinsons-May department store site in North Hollywood and a Target store site at Laurel Canyon Laurel Canyon can refer to several things:
She said a shorter term solution for Poly might be to lease a vacant office building across Roscoe Boulevard from the school. It could add 25 classrooms and a cafeteria, she said. ``This could be a reality as soon as January, if we get our act together,'' she said. State Sen. Richard Alarcon, D-Van Nuys, a panelist at the meeting, suggested expanding Grant High School onto adjacent empty land surrounding a radio tower. He also called for clearing out some of the school district's planners responsible for the crowding crisis - making an indirect reference to the widening problems at the site where construction is stalled on the Belmont Learning Center This Belmont Learning Center contains information about a building currently under construction. It may contain information of a speculative nature, and the content may change dramatically as construction progresses and new information becomes available. - the nation's costliest high school. ``We do have a crisis and it's a crisis in the school district's ability to build schools,'' Alarcon said. |
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