Local News in Brief : New Magnet School OKd
The Los Angeles Board of Education has agreed to establish a foreign language-international studies magnet center at Venice High School.
The program, which is scheduled to open in September, will be the 87th magnet center in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Magnets were conceived in the late 1970s as a voluntary integration program. They form a network of elementary, junior high and high schools or schools within schools that seek to achieve racial balance by offering special curricula or teaching approaches.
About 26,000 of the district’s 592,000 students attend magnets. Another 10,000 are waiting for openings at the popular schools.
The new magnet, approved Monday, is expected to enroll an initial 245 ninth- and 10th-graders. Grades 11 and 12 will be phased in over the next two years, with full enrollment expected to reach 502.
The magnet will teach French and Spanish as well as such less frequently taught languages as Latin, German, Chinese, Japanese and Russian, depending on demand.
Information on how to apply will be given this month to all eighth- and ninth-graders in the district, a schools official said.
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