Beverly Hills : Schools Cut Class Offerings
Classes in German, Latin, astronomy, forensics and a special class for the academic decathlon team have been eliminated at Beverly Hills High School as a result of voters’ rejection in June of the school district’s parcel tax proposal, school officials have announced.
In addition, art, music, business education, performing arts and physical education classes at the high school will be reduced.
In the elementary schools, instrumental music programs, science laboratories, a sixth-grade foreign language program, art classes, physical education and computer classes have been cut from the curriculum.
The program cuts are accompanied by staff reductions of 41 teachers, counselors, librarians and nurses and 35 other school district employees under the school district’s $28.8-million budget for the 1990-91 year.
The parcel tax fell four votes short of passage in a referendum in June. The tax would have raised about $4.5 million a year for the school district with assessments of $250 to $750 annually on all residential and commercial property in the city.
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