MOORPARK SCHOOL BOARD OKS BOUNDARY CHANGE; DISTRICT WILL TRANSFER STUDENTS TO BALANCE ETHNIC MAKEUP OF CAMPUS RANKS.Byline: Sylvia Sylvia may refer to:
Hoping to find the most equitable equitable adj. 1) just, based on fairness and not legal technicalities. 2) refers to positive remedies (orders to do something, not money damages) employed by the courts to solve disputes or give relief. (See: equity) EQUITABLE. ethnic balance among its elementary campuses, the Moorpark school board approved a boundary change that would transfer 275 Latino students out of downtown campuses. At the same time, the board found a middle ground between two communities - Mountain Meadows Mountain Meadows, small valley in extreme SW Utah, where in 1857 a party of some 140 emigrants bound for California were massacred. It was a period when friction between Mormons and non-Mormons was acute, with Mormons bitterly resenting the coming of U.S. , which did not want their children moved, and Peach Hill, which wanted the high Latino population at its campus reduced so it was more in line with other campuses. The school board voted Tuesday night to shift students living on and north of Second Street and south of the railroad railroad or railway, form of transportation most commonly consisting of steel rails, called tracks, on which freight cars, passenger cars, and other rolling stock are drawn by one locomotive or more. tracks from Peach Hill and Flory elementary schools elementary school: see school. to Mountain Meadows and Arroyo West for the 1999-2000 school year. ``It's something we all believe needed to be done,'' board President David Pollock said Wednesday. ``But there are still other things that need to be done in terms of looking at the program equities across the district.'' Although their students may have to be be moved, parents of today's second-, fourth- and seventh-graders will have the option of keeping students in their area schools for the coming school year. But they would be required to pay for their transportation unless they meet low-income standards. The district has long struggled with the ethnic makeup makeup In the performing arts, material used by actors for cosmetic purposes and to help create the characters they play. Not needed in Greek and Roman theatre because of the use of masks, makeup was used in the religious plays of medieval Europe, in which the angels' faces of its schools, ideally striving for a 68-32 percent ratio, give or take 8 percent. Citywide, the makeup of school-age children is 59.4 percent white and 32.4 percent Latino. The change will bring the Latino population at Peach Hill from 49.3 percent to roughly 38 percent. The board had six options from which to choose in making the boundary adjustments - all of which shifted Latinos from downtown to outlying out·ly·ing adj. Relatively distant or remote from a center or middle: outlying regions. outlying Adjective far away from the main area Adj. 1. schools. Peach Hill parents argued that boundary changes should not only affect downtown students, but also should require that some of the white students move in from Mountain Meadows to replace the Latinos who move out of their school. Mountain Meadows parents said they wanted stability for their children and rejected the idea of taking them out of their neighborhood school. There were no parents present from the downtown area at Tuesday's school board meeting. Ultimately, the change will mean a decrease in enrollment at Peach Hill to slightly more than 500 students, while increasing the Arroyo West population to 873 students. Now, the district will have to come up with ways to relieve 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. at those schools. One option may be shifting some or all third graders from Arroyo West to Mountain Meadows. |
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