Students as dollar signs

03-18-2010

Editorial/Los Angeles Times

In January, Beverly Hills Unified School District voted to expel hundreds of students who attend its schools but live outside its boundaries because, under a change of funding formula, those students no longer would bring in extra money. Now Los Angeles Unified is forcing thousands of students who live within the district but attend schools elsewhere to return. Rich school or poor, it's not pretty to see students treated like walking dollar signs. The L.A. Unified students need annual permission to enroll in such places as Torrance, Santa Monica and Calabasas, and now that the district's budget is sinking into a seemingly bottomless hole, each of those students represents a chance to recapture thousands of dollars in funding. (more...)

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