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SAN FERNANDO VALLEY : Realtors Support New School District

By HENRY CHU
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An organization of San Fernando Valley real estate agents has thrown its support behind the latest efforts to create a separate Valley school district.

The board of directors of the San Fernando Valley Board of Realtors last month voted to back a broad-based coalition seeking to break away from the mammoth Los Angeles Unified School District, coalition officials announced Monday.

The organization is the latest group to join a secessionist movement that was revived by a summer redistricting battle that erased one of two Valley-based seats on the Board of Education.

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“The time has come to return our schools in the San Fernando Valley to local control,” Lorrie Griffey, president of the Board of Realtors, wrote in a letter. The Sept. 8 letter was addressed to the United Chambers of Commerce of the San Fernando Valley, one of the organizations leading the breakaway effort.

The Board of Realtors, which represents more than 8,000 Valley real estate agents, joins a number of parent organizations and lawmakers who have pledged to work toward carving the Valley out of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

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Henry Chu

Henry Chu first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and worked primarily out of the San Fernando Valley office before moving to the foreign staff in 1998. He served as bureau chief in Beijing from 1998 to 2003, Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2005, New Delhi from 2006 to 2008 and London from 2009 to 2014. He was a 2014-15 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. From 2016-19 he was international editor at Variety magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Chu returned to The Times in March 2020 as deputy news editor based in London. He left in 2024.

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