Task Force Advises Against Closing Any More Schools
A Los Angeles school district task force has recommended against closing any more schools in the city.
Because of a surging birthrate, the panel said, the district expects to enroll 70,000 more students in the next five years, and even distant suburban schools are quickly filling up.
The report by the Districtwide Underutilized School Sites Committee will be forwarded to the school board, which can formally accept or reject the recommendation or take no further action on it.
In the last three years, the school board has closed 22 schools, and 58 others still have enrollments of fewer than 300 children. But the district committee urged the board not to close any of these 58 schools because their empty classroom spaces may soon be needed to relieve overcrowding at other campuses.
Twenty-five of the 58 schools are in the San Fernando Valley and 15 are in West Los Angeles.
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