ENCINO : Roberti Calls Strategy Session on School Breakup
With efforts to break up the Los Angeles Unified School District seemingly on hold, State Sen. David A. Roberti (D-Van Nuys) assembled a group of San Fernando Valley legislators Friday for a strategy session aimed at getting the issue moving again.
Roberti said the group of state and local legislators, including state Sen. Cathie Wright (R-Simi Valley) and Assemblywomen Barbara Friedman (D-North Hollywood) and Paula L. Boland (R-Granada Hills), pledged between $30,000 and $40,000 to push the breakup of the 640,000-student district but did not decide on what route to take. The group will meet again next week.
Breakup bills introduced by Roberti and Boland failed to win enough support this year for passage. Those bills could become the vehicle for downsizing the district, or the legislators could decide to go directly to voters with a measure on the November, 1994, ballot. The group also could decide to ask the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors or the State Board of Education to split up the vast district.
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