EDITORIAL YEAR-ROUND FAILURE VAN NUYS HIGH SCHOOL FALLS PREY TO LAUSD'S HISTORY OF FAILURE.A decade ago, the ideological ninnies who ran 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. into the ground tried to put all 600 schools on a year-round schedule whether it was needed or not. Back then, it was all about ``social equity.'' In a fit of egalitarian zeal, the LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) wanted to make its schools equally bad for everyone by universalizing the year-round calendar. Strict scrutiny A standard of Judicial Review for a challenged policy in which the court presumes the policy to be invalid unless the government can demonstrate a compelling interest to justify the policy. from the Daily News and public outrage put that plan on hold, but not for long. Today, year-round schools 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 are back in full force, driven not by social engineering, but by the long-term and continuing failure of the ninnies who run the LAUSD to build schools even when they have the money to do so. The LAUSD no longer talks about ``social equity'' - its concern is 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. . Having long ignored the reality of a burgeoning student population and a shortage of classroom space, the LAUSD is now left with no option but to go year-round at more and more of its campuses. Van Nuys High School Van Nuys High School (VNHS) established in 1914, is a high school in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles, California, belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District: District 2. is the latest victim - and the students and parents are the worse off for it. The school board has voted to impose the 365-day schedule on Van Nuys starting next year - unless someone else can think of some other way to accommodate its under-served student base. That's is the burden of local communities trapped in the LAUSD. The district either cannot or will not tend to their concerns, and communities lack the power or the resources to tend to them themselves. After decades of failure, the need for local control couldn't be more clear. Local control over schools is an old idea whose time has come again. |
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