La Follette Hopes to Ally With Year-Round-School Foes : Division: The assemblywoman, who has failed in efforts to break up L.A. Unified School District, seeks support from angry parents.

Advocates of breaking up the sprawling Los Angeles Unified School District said Thursday that it could be divided into eight separate districts, including two in the San Fernando Valley, along current administrative boundaries.

Rob Wilcox, an aide to state Assemblywoman Marian La Follette (R-Northridge) who has advocated the breakup, told a press conference at school 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.

Wilcox said La Follette’s latest efforts to divide the Los Angeles school district--the nation’s second largest--are gathering support from Valley and Westside communities.

“We won’t stop until this is finished” said Wilcox, a La Follette aide and executive director of an advisory committee La Follette created to study breaking up the Los Angeles district.

Breaking up the Los Angeles district by existing regions would create two districts in the Valley, as well as districts in the Harbor, Westside/Hollywood, downtown, east side, south and southeast Los Angeles areas.

La Follette is hoping to use the issue of year-round classes to win support for her idea, which had previously failed to make its way out of committee in the Legislature. La Follette is working to bypass state lawmakers with a plan to have voters decide whether they favor dividing Los Angeles into eight or more separate school districts.

Gov. George Deukmejian in his proposed budget set aside $250,000 for the state Board of Education to study the legal and logistical issues involved in breaking up the district. The state board is also authorized to ask the Los Angeles County Commission on School District Organization to draw up a proposal that would be decided by the 1.5 million registered voters who live within the boundaries of the Los Angeles school district.

La Follette, who was in Sacramento on Thursday, expects to have a vote on such a plan by next year, Wilcox said.

District officials say breaking up the district would cost taxpayers more money and endanger districtwide programs such as magnet schools.

The press conference was attended by 26 San Fernando Valley parents, angry over the school board’s decision Monday to initiate year-round schedules at all city schools beginning in 1991.

Several of the parents who attended the press conference were organizers of efforts in the past month to defeat district proposals to increase available classroom seats in the rapidly growing district by operating schools year-round.

“It’s time we have a say in running our schools,” said Barbara Romey, a former school board candidate and longtime opponent of year-round schools.