LAUSD ASKED TO JUGGLE SCHOOL CALENDARS.Byline: David R. Baker Staff Writer The 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. district may cut the number of academic calendars it uses from six to three, possibly forcing students at 63 schools to switch to other schedules. Interim Superintendent Ramon Cortines has proposed reducing the number of calendars, which set vacation dates for students and teachers, to make it easier to train staff members and provide remedial REMEDIAL. That which affords a remedy; as, a remedial statute, or one which is made to supply some defects or abridge some superfluities of the common law. 1 131. Com. 86. The term remedial statute is also applied to those acts which give a new remedy. Esp. Pen. Act. 1. classes. ``We can have professional development for our staff. We can have intervention programs,'' Cortines said Tuesday. The school board is scheduled to discuss the proposal at its next meeting. Board member David Tokofsky, however, questioned whether it made sense to force schools to adopt one calendar when they had previously chosen another. ``We're big enough for a little variety,'' Tokofsky said. In the 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. , about 20 schools would be affected. Most of the schools affected are elementary campuses currently using a calendar called ``Modified Concept 6,'' a variation of a year-round, multitrack mul·ti·track adj. 1. Having, using, or produced with multiple recording tracks: a multitrack tape recorder. 2. schedule. The regular Concept 6 calendar has two periods of instruction of about 80 days each, interrupted by two breaks. Modified Concept 6 includes the same number of instructional days split into four periods with four breaks. The 47 schools now on Modified Concept 6 would switch to the regular Concept 6. Three elementary schools elementary school: see school. now using a year-round calendar called 60/20 will switch to another year-round schedule dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. 90/30, essentially moving from a system of three breaks to two breaks. And the 13 schools still on the traditional school calendar would switch to the similar LEARN schedule, which does not run year-round. |
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