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Beverly Hills blocks outside students
- 01-13-2010
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By Jennifer Steinhauer/New York Times
In a contentious meeting ringed by police officers, the Beverly Hills school board voted Tuesday night to dismiss roughly 470 students enrolled in its schools on out-of-district permits. The school system there has long opened its doors to students who live outside the district — currently about one in seven of its roughly 4,800 students — in large part because they brought a financial windfall. But now, because cash-poor California has reduced local support to schools, including the reimbursements for out-of-district students, the so-called permit students are more of a burden to the schools than a boon. Beverly Hills will soon use property tax dollars to finance its schools to replace money lost from the state. So the board voted to notify most of the out-of-district students that they must go. (more...)
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