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The entire city of Los Angeles and portions of several nearby localities are served by the District. It even has its own police department. Amazingly, if the school system was a Fortune 500 company, it would rank at around 250. It operates almost as many buses as the LA Transportation Authority. Over 500,000 meals per day are served up in school cafeterias.
The District is known for overcrowded schools, lackluster maintenance and ineffective administration. The graduation rates are not very high either, leading to a large number of basically unemployable young people flooding the local job market. In addition, the District has long been derisively known for its laden bureaucracy. Many attempts to reform the system have been tried, but none very.
The festering school dropout issue has been at the center of District reform discussions for quite some time. An in depth study undertaken by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University calculated that only approximately 45 percent of LA students were graduating within four years.
Lastly, a Washington, D.C. based public policy think tank estimated that one year's class of public school dropouts in time costs California over 38 billion dollars in lost wages, taxes and productivity over the former student's lifetimes.
Category: Reference and EducationHow Education And Employment Work Together In Los Angeles was written by:Author:Matthew PaoliniAdded: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:38:46 -0500 This Article Has Been Read 185 times View all Matthew Paolini's articlesAbout the Author: Follow the opt-in process described above, from squeeze page to pre-sell page to sales page, by visiting http://acs.homebiz2000.com. Don't forget to opt-in to see how the autoresponder series is used to refer subscribers back to the pre-sell page over and over. Of course, there's a revealing - and valuable - free gift at the end of the series for all those who subscribe at http://acs.homebiz2000.com |
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