School Remap Initiative Drive Delayed Until 1994

A San Fernando Valley coalition attempting to overturn recently redrawn Los Angeles school board boundaries announced Tuesday that it has deferred until June, 1994, a campaign to place an alternative map before city voters.

The Coalition Against Unfair School Elections had hoped to qualify an initiative for the June, 1993, ballot that would scrap a controversial redistricting plan approved last summer to give Latino neighborhoods control over at least two of the board’s seven seats.

But the group’s leaders said Tuesday that they do not have enough signatures to meet Thursday’s deadline. CAUSE President Cecelia Mansfield said the group will continue circulating petitions.