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SAN FERNANDO VALLEY : Business Group Backs LEARN Plan

By HENRY CHU
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A leading San Fernando Valley business group has thrown its support behind the LEARN proposals to overhaul the Los Angeles public school system.

The executive committee of the Valley Industry and Commerce Assn., which represents 350 businesses, voted unanimously Monday to support the plan put forth by the Los Angeles Educational Alliance for Restructuring Now, a coalition devoted to reforming city schools. The LEARN proposals call for vast decentralization of power.

VICA education committee Chairwoman Carolyn Ellner, dean of the Cal State Northridge School of Education, commended LEARN for its efforts but added that “some problems still have to be resolved” in the plan, such as financing and monitoring the reforms.

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She also said VICA’s support for the LEARN proposals would not preclude it from taking a stand on a potential breakup of the Los Angeles Unified School District, which LEARN President Mike Roos opposes.

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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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