REMEDIAL STUDENTS TO STAY IN MIDDLE SCHOOL.Byline: Phillip W. Browne and David R. Baker Staff Writers With no room left in Los Angeles high schools Los Angeles High School, founded in 1873, is the oldest public high school in the Southern California Region and in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Its colors are blue and white and the teams are called the Romans. , district officials said Wednesday that they will scrap plans to move underperforming eighth- graders to secondary schools and instead will keep them in middle school. District officials initially had planned to place failing eighth-graders in special classes on high school campuses. Although the students would not be in the same classes as their peers, they would at least attend the same school. Now officials say they can't find enough space in the high schools and that it would be easier, logistically, to keep failing students at their middle schools. ``Space will be opened up at the middle schools for the retained eighth-graders,'' Assistant Superintendent Assistant Superintendent, or Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), was a rank used by police forces in the British Empire. It was usually the lowest rank that could be held by a European officer, most of whom joined the police at this rank. Gordon Wohlers said. ``If there is no space, we will have to bring in portables to house them.'' 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. has been a key issue in efforts to end social promotion in the sprawling 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. , the nation's second- largest public school system. Initially, former Superintendent Ruben Zacarias had wanted to retain as many as 157,000 students in grades two through five - a plan that would have cost $140 million this school year. Since then, however, administrators have shaved shave v. shaved, shaved or shav·en , shav·ing, shaves v.tr. 1. a. To remove the beard or other body hair from, with a razor or shaver: 40,000 students off that list and announced that they would hold back only students in grades two and eight. Even with those greatly reduced numbers, middle school principals worry that they won't have enough space to house 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. students. Stephen Lawler, principal of Portola Middle School in Tarzana, said his school already retains between 35 and 50 underperforming students each year and might not have room for more pupils. ``If you increase the enrollment by as little as 35 students, that's another classroom that will have to be found,'' he said. Wohlers said district officials also are searching for off-campus sites that the LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) could lease as classroom space for retained students. But some worry that separating children from their peers who are moving on to high school would crush their spirits and further hurt their academic performance. ``That's demoralizing de·mor·al·ize tr.v. de·mor·al·ized, de·mor·al·iz·ing, de·mor·al·iz·es 1. To undermine the confidence or morale of; dishearten: an inconsistent policy that demoralized the staff. for kids, especially at that vulnerable age,'' school board President Genethia Hayes said. Board member Valerie Fields suggested easing the sting of retainment by pairing failing students with their former peers in joint activities, such as gym classes on the same campus. |
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