SCHOOL REPORT : <i> News from Monday’s Los Angeles Unified School District board meeting.</i> : 13 Management Programs Approved
The board approved 13 more proposals for school-based management programs, bringing to 40 the number of schools that are participating in the program. Board members praised the new proposals--which range from dividing campuses into mini-schools to setting up peer tutoring programs--as being more innovative than the 27 proposals approved last year.
The board also:
* Voted to implement a state law that will reduce the size of 11th-grade English classes to a ratio of one teacher to 20 students beginning this spring. The $3.8-million cost of the change will be paid by the state.
* Voted to increase capacity at 105 schools by 23% to alleviate overcrowding. The board will require those campuses to switch to multitrack, year-round schools, add portable classrooms or come up with individual plans.
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* Campus Safety: The board will review a report, released last week, that urges the district to provide more money for counseling and classes that teach students how to avoid violence and stay away from gangs, drugs and alcohol.
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According to the school district’s latest ethnic survey, Latino students make up 63.3% of enrollment in kindergarten through grade 12, up 1.8% over the last school year. Blacks represent 15.1% of the students, Anglos account for 13.7% and Asian, Filipino and Pacific Island students combined make up 7.6%.
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