CHICK AUDIT OF LAUSD BACKED.Byline: Rick Orlov Staff Writer Pressure on Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. officials to hire Controller Laura Chick to audit the district intensified Tuesday as the City Council weighed whether to support the move and a San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. business group called for a thorough review. Councilwoman Wendy Greuel Wendy Greuel is President Pro Tempore of the Los Angeles City Council representing the 2nd District. Greuel was elected in 2002 to fill the remainder of the term of Councilman Joel Wachs. She was elected in her own right in 2003 and reelected in 2007. introduced a motion calling on 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. to invite Chick to conduct the audit to review the organization's operations and find efficiencies. The action is needed because Chick has no authority to audit any LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) operations and must be asked to conduct such a review. While school officials have said they welcome working with Chick, they have questioned whether her audit is needed because several audits already have been conducted and others are planned. As part of its agreement with United Teachers of Los Angeles, the district has agreed to conduct an audit of its administrative operations. District officials said that cost was estimated at $200,000. Chick has estimated her audit would cost $800,000. Greuel's proposal is scheduled to be considered by the full council next week. Meanwhile, the Valley Industry and Commerce Association called on the LAUSD to hire Chick. ``Poor graduation rates and the LAUSD's inability to accurately account and take responsibility for dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human rates have sparked the ire and angst of VICA VICA Vocational Industrial Clubs of America VICA Video Conferencing Alliance (UK) VICA Vocational Industrial Chapters of America VICA Vision Counsel of America ,'' the organization said in a statement. VICA President Bob Scott said Chick has proven her office's objectivity and independence with previous audits of city agencies. ``The public deserves an audit done by an objective outside agency and VICA is convinced that the city controller's would be able to generate the most reliable information,'' Scott said. Scott said he hoped an audit would examine the entire district as well as the performance and treatment of charter schools, small learning communities and other programs. Rick Orlov, (213) 978-0390 rick.orlov(at)dailynews.com |
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