LAUSD LAUNCHES TRAFFIC SAFETY PROGRAM.Byline: Sonia Giordani Staff Writer Hoping to reduce traffic crashes around schools, 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. police plan to issue more citations under a new school safety campaign being launched today. Called the School Safe Traffic Zone Task Force, the program evolved in response to the expansion of after-school programs that keep students on campus for hours long after crossing guards have gone home. Part of the program calls for police to issue more citations for infractions involving pedestrians, scooters, skateboards, motorized scooters and bicycles. But violators will be asked to attend traffic safety classes that will nullify nul·li·fy tr.v. nul·li·fied, nul·li·fy·ing, nul·li·fies 1. To make null; invalidate. 2. To counteract the force or effectiveness of. the citation. ``The goal is not to punish, it's to educate,'' said Tana Ball, the LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) police program director heading up the task force. ``This is a way we can encourage parents and children to keep the areas around our schools safe.'' The program will kick off today around four Los Angeles schools 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. - Manual Arts High, Muir Middle and Budlong and Menlo elementary schools. Ball said the program is set to expand into 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. this winter, with all LAUSD schools incorporated into the program by the end of 2003. |
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