Armenian Education Commission Formed
The Los Angeles school board voted Monday to create an Armenian Education Commission, the eighth such panel set up as a link between the district’s elected officials and an ethnic or special interest group.
Board of Education member Jeff Horton said the new commission was needed to represent the interests of 15,000 Armenian American students and their families, many of whom emigrated from a “war-torn and deprived situation in Armenia.”
Two board members, however, expressed reservations about the proliferation of commissions, which cost about $100,000 per year.
The other commissions are for Latinos, African Americans, American Indians, Asian Pacific Americans, gays and lesbians, special education and sex equity.
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