DISTRICT OFFERS TO HELP COUNTY; SCHOOL SITE TROUBLES NEIGHBORS.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer Palmdale School District The Palmdale School District is a school district that serves a major part of the city of Palmdale, California (USA). The Palmdale School District was first formed in 1888. Approximately 28,000 students are enrolled in the Palmdale School District. officials are offering to help the county find another site for a proposed school for troubled teens, which has drawn objections from neighbors. During a hearing Tuesday night, a half-dozen residents expressed their opposition to a plan by the 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. County Office of Education to open a school at Avenue P-8 and 10th Street West. It would serve Palmdale youths who have been furloughed from probation camps after serving time for such offenses as car theft, burglary burglary, at common law, the breaking and entering of a dwelling house of another at night with the intent to commit a felony, whether the intent is carried out or not. , drug charges and gang-related incidents. Neighbors also have gathered 475 signatures opposing the school. After hearing the complaints, the district proposed taking over the six-year lease on the school site and using it instead for a Head Start preschool. Officials also would help the county find another location for the school. ``We would be looking to help the county find something not in a residential area,'' Superintendent Nancy Smith said. Smith made the proposal to Los Angeles County Board of Education member Sophia Waugh, an Acton resident who formerly served on the Antelope Valley Union High School District The Antelope Valley Union High School District (A.V.U.H.S.D.) is located in the Antelope Valley area of California, in northern Los Angeles County. The district includes eight public high schools, one trade school, and two continuation high schools in the cities of Palmdale board. ``She pledged she would help us work on that and see if it's a viable solution,'' Smith said. Waugh could not be reached Wednesday for comment. However, the county education office pledged Wednesday to work with the city, the school district and the community to find a location for the school. ``Our goal is to help Palmdale's youth at risk make a positive transition back to their school districts, into the work force and into community life,'' spokeswoman Margo Minecki said. ``We believe the Palmdale community as a whole will benefit when these young residents have a local program where they can get the academic and career training and other services they need to succeed.'' The Palmdale board has taken a formal stance against the proposed location, which is a half-mile from Juniper juniper, any tree or shrub of the genus Juniperus, aromatic evergreens of the family Cupressaceae (cypress family), widely distributed over the north temperate zone. Many are valuable as a source of lumber and oil. Intermediate School and two miles from Summerwind and Palmdale Learning Plaza schools. While residents complain they were not notified of plans for the school or given a chance to voice their concerns, county officials say they have been working with the city to find a suitable location and have proceeded with Palmdale's cooperation. The county had previously considered sites in downtown Palmdale and in a shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into in the 2200 block of East Palmdale Boulevard. City officials opposed the downtown site, saying it was not a prudent use in an area the city is trying to revitalize re·vi·tal·ize tr.v. re·vi·tal·ized, re·vi·tal·iz·ing, re·vi·tal·iz·es To impart new life or vigor to: plans to revitalize inner-city neighborhoods; tried to revitalize a flagging economy. . The shopping center idea was dropped when another retail tenant expressed interest in the site, officials said. The site is within city limits, but the nearest homes are in the unincorporated Adj. 1. unincorporated - not organized and maintained as a legal corporation unorganised, unorganized - not having or belonging to a structured whole; "unorganized territories lack a formal government" Desert View Highlands area. Since April 1997, the county has run another school just like it at Division Street and Avenue K-8 in Lancaster, serving 50 to 60 youths. About 40 percent of the enrollment are teen-agers from Palmdale. The county education office, through its juvenile court juvenile court Special court handling problems of delinquent, neglected, or abused children. Two types of cases are processed by a juvenile court: civil matters, often concerning care of an abandoned or impoverished child, and criminal matters, arising from antisocial and community schools division, runs 52 schools throughout the county, some at juvenile halls, some in the camps and the majority in community education centers. |
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