City Secession First

Re “Vote for Secession Won’t Split Up L.A. Unified,” April 29: In your article many San Fernando Valley residents were disappointed, as I was, to learn that the break of the San Fernando Valley from L.A. would not include a break from the LAUSD. But isn’t it really first necessary to get our Valley out of downtown L.A. so we can then work on getting our schools out of the district? First a separate city for the Valley with local control--then a break from the LAUSD would likely be obtainable. I don’t want to have to listen to the LAUSD’s same sorry excuses for more generations.

Leah Cohen

Reseda