Private Giving to Public Schools and Districts in Los Angeles County: A Pilot Study

2001 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Private Giving

Unification and Its Discontents

2016 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-16
Author(s):  
Brian Kovalesky
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
School District ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
The State ◽  
White Working Class ◽  
City Schools

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, during the height of protests and actions by civil rights activists around de facto school segregation in the Los Angeles area, the residents of a group of small cities just southeast of the City of Los Angeles fought to break away from the Los Angeles City Schools and create a new, independent school district—one that would help preserve racially segregated schools in the area. The “Four Cities” coalition was comprised of residents of the majority white, working-class cities of Vernon, Maywood, Huntington Park, and Bell—all of which had joined the Los Angeles City Schools in the 1920s and 1930s rather than continue to operate local districts. The coalition later expanded to include residents of the cities of South Gate, Cudahy, and some unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, although Vernon was eventually excluded. The Four Cities coalition petitioned for the new district in response to a planned merger of the Los Angeles City Schools—until this time comprised of separate elementary and high school districts—into the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The coalition's strategy was to utilize a provision of the district unification process that allowed citizens to petition for reconfiguration or redrawing of boundaries. Unification was encouraged by the California State Board of Education and legislature in order to combine the administrative functions of separate primary and secondary school districts—the dominant model up to this time—to better serve the state's rapidly growing population of children and their educational needs, and was being deliberated in communities across the state and throughout Los Angeles County. The debates at the time over school district unification in the Greater Los Angeles area, like the one over the Four Cities proposal, were inextricably tied to larger issues, such as taxation, control of community institutions, the size and role of state and county government, and racial segregation. At the same time that civil rights activists in the area and the state government alike were articulating a vision of public schools that was more inclusive and demanded larger-scale, consolidated administration, the unification process reveals an often-overlooked grassroots activism among residents of the majority white, working-class cities surrounding Los Angeles that put forward a vision of exclusionary, smaller-scale school districts based on notions of local control and what they termed “community identity.”

Open Enrolment and Student Sorting in Public Schools: Evidence from Los Angeles County

10.1068/a4128 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 1109-1128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Ledwith
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
White Students ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Latino Students ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
White Schools ◽  
Student Sorting ◽  
The Relationship

I examine the relationship between student mobility associated with open enrolment and student sorting in public schools in Los Angeles County and find that open enrolment provides Latino students who attend outside their neighbourhoods access to higher quality, more integrated, schools than those who remain enroled in their neighbourhood schools. However, attendance at majority-white schools continues to be highly segregated. Therefore, while open enrolment may provide some minority students with the opportunity to avoid attending a majority-minority school, it does not undo the mechanisms through which white students remain socially and spatially segregated from their minority counterparts. The lack of meaningful interracial and cross-cultural exchange during the school-age years is a worrying trend that could lead to increased polarization and social exclusion in Los Angeles and other multiethnic cities and communities.

scholarly journals Air concentrations of VOCs in portable and traditional classrooms: Results of a pilot study in Los Angeles County

2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek G Shendell ◽  
Arthur M Winer ◽  
Thomas H Stock ◽  
Lin Zhang ◽  
Junfeng Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Traditional Classrooms ◽  
Air Concentrations

Evidence of inadequate ventilation in portable classrooms: results of a pilot study in Los Angeles County

Indoor Air ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 154-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. G. Shendell ◽  
A. M. Winer ◽  
R. Weker ◽  
S. D. Colome
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Inadequate Ventilation ◽  
Portable Classrooms

scholarly journals Monitoring Twitter Conversations for Targeted Recruitment in Cancer Trials in Los Angeles County: Protocol for a Mixed-Methods Pilot Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. e177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Reuter ◽  
Praveen Angyan ◽  
NamQuyen Le ◽  
Alicia MacLennan ◽  
Sarah Cole ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Cancer Trials
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