La Canada Flintridge : Secession Petition OKd
A petition by a group of La Canada Flintridge residents seeking to break away from the Glendale Unified School District has been approved by the Los Angeles Committee on School District Organization, an official for the committee said.
The 11-member county committee must now decide whether to call an election on the transfer and, if so, what area to include, said Jim Marlatt, the committee’s representative from the County Office of Education.
If successful, the secession could result in the transfer of 241 Glendale students to La Canada schools by July, 1993.
Organizers of the secession move gathered the signatures of 51% of the 1,400 registered voters in the neighborhood in the northwest corner of the Glendale district east of Pickens Canyon in La Canada Flintridge.
Proponents and opponents of the secession move and officials from the two districts will be able to address county committee members during two public hearings.
They are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. March 9 at Mountain Avenue Elementary School, 2307 Mountain Ave. in La Crescenta, and 7:30 p.m. March 16 at Palm Crest Elementary School, 5025 Palm Drive in La Canada.
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