RESEDA SCHOOL TO HOLD CLASSES IN FALL AFTER 15 YEARS.Byline: David R. Baker Daily News Staff Writer Swamped by surging student enrollment, 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 plans to reopen this fall a Reseda elementary campus closed 15 years ago. Newcastle Elementary School Newcastle Elementary School is the only school located in the affluent city of Newcastle, Washington and serves grades kindergarten through 5th. Newcastle Elementary is part of the Issaquah School District and is a feeder school for Maywood Middle School and Liberty Senior High was among 22 schools mothballed by the district when enrollment shrank during the early 1980s. Now, after years of serving as an office for district workers and a center for independent studies, the old elementary school elementary school: see school. will be reborn re·born adj. Emotionally or spiritually revived or regenerated. reborn Adjective active again after a period of inactivity Adj. 1. . Starting Sept. 8, about 420 children in kindergarten through fifth grade will attend. That may seem a drop in the bucket for a district with about 700,000 kids. ``Every drop is useful,'' said school board member Julie Korenstein, whose constituency includes Reseda. ``Every time we open up a closed school, we get about 400 to 500 kids off of buses. That helps.'' In Newcastle's case, most students - about 170 - will come from nearby Bertrand Avenue School. An additional 80 will come from Lemay Street School, said Rena Perez, chief boundary coordinator for 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. . The school will also have about 80 kids brought in from overflowing Langdon Avenue School in North Hills, said Dale Braun, director of school management services. But most spots will go to children from the neighborhood, she said. Newcastle may represent the beginning of a larger wave of school reopenings. Plans are under way to move a magnet school magnet school n. A public school offering a specialized curriculum, often with high academic standards, to a student body representing a cross section of the community. into an old elementary campus in Westchester, Braun said, and other schools shuttered during shrinking enrollment will likely be used again. ``I certainly believe there will come a time when all those schools will be used again by LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) ,'' Korenstein said. Although less expensive than building a new campus, reopening a former school isn't cheap. Newcastle's renaissance cost $936,309. Running it will take additional money for teachers' and administrators' salaries. At the board's next meeting, it will vote on the school's calendar and budget. CAPTION(S): Map Map: Reseda Newcastle Elementary School |
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