EDITORIAL WORK IT OUT NEIGHBORHOOD AND SCHOOL NEED TO RESOLVE DIFFERENCES.NEIGHBORS of Ivy Academia Entrepreneurial Charter School are justifiably annoyed. The school's administrators have ignored enrollment limits on the Fallbrook campus, allowing 40 more students to attend this year. This is just the latest of many clashes between residents and the school over noise, traffic and past permit violations. It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for city officials to step in and, once and for all, work it out. It's true that the school's founders, husband and wife Eugene Selivanov and Tatyana Berkovich, have violated codes as Ivy grew from a home-care center to a full charter school. And it's true that the school has had internal controversies and is under investigation after assertions that it was misusing state funds. But it's also true that Ivy Academia is in great demand among parents, who flock to the school to escape the bureaucratic bu·reau·crat n. 1. An official of a bureaucracy. 2. An official who is rigidly devoted to the details of administrative procedure. bu nightmare of 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. . In fact, the very reason Ivy is in trouble this time is that so many parents want to send their kids there. School officials took in too many students, and were hauled before the City Council last week by angry neighbors. That's saying something in a part of the city that's seen such huge enrollment declines that four LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) schools sit shuttered shut·ter n. 1. One that shuts, as: a. A hinged cover or screen for a window, usually fitted with louvers. b. . It's the responsibility of the city -- starting with Councilman Dennis Zine -- to find a way that Ivy can be both the pride of parents and its community. The City Council took the correct first step Wednesday by giving Ivy the rest of the school year to reduce enrollment, while vowing to help it find another location to accommodate the growing student body. Now school officials must make good on the offer and truly assist the school and its parents in finding another location. It shouldn't be that hard. There are those four schools that LAUSD officials have so far refused to sell to Ivy. Perhaps the mayor, with his new power over the LAUSD bureaucracy, could insist on some sort of mutually beneficial Adj. 1. mutually beneficial - mutually dependent interdependent, mutualist dependent - relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed; "dependent children"; "dependent on moisture" arrangement. Ivy Academia is far from perfect. But this is also a school that had the highest academic test scores of any independent elementary charter school in 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. for two years. Something right is going on at its two campuses, and that something ought to be nurtured, not stamped out by the angry villagers. |
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