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Supervisors seek to change LAUSD plan to cancel transfer permits
- 03-31-2010
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KPCC
The Board of Supervisors today sought to modify a plan by the Los Angeles Unified School District to cancel "interdistrict permits,'' which enable students who live within LAUSD boundaries to go to schools in other districts. Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said students should be allowed to finish out their education at their current elementary, middle or high schools before being forced to attend an LAUSD school. The district should "do this rationally, in a phased-in approach,'' rather than canceling all transfer permits summarily, Yaroslavsky said. As proposed by the LAUSD, students enrolled outside the LAUSD would have to transfer to LAUSD schools this summer, unless they have less a year left to graduation or promotion to the next level of schooling. (more...)
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