Plan Would Break School District Into 8 New Ones
Advocates of breaking up the sprawling Los Angeles Unified School District said Thursday that it could be divided into eight separate districts along current administrative boundaries.
Rob Wilcox, an aide to state Assemblywoman Marian LaFollette (R-Northridge), told a news conference at district offices in Van Nuys that each of the district’s eight regions would have enough students and facilities to operate as an independent school district.
Dividing the Los Angeles district by existing regions would create two districts in the Valley, as well as districts in the Harbor, Westside/Hollywood, downtown, Eastside, south and southeast areas.
Wilcox is executive director of an advisory committee LaFollette created to study breaking up the district, the nation’s second largest.
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