LAUSD Canceling Summer School: Do We Really Want to Go There?Anthony Asadullah Samadbyline‚ Jun. 10‚ 2009The Superintendent of the second largest school district in the United States, Ray Cortines, recently announced that the Los Angeles Unified School District will be canceling summer school as a cost-cutting remedy for the district’s $400 million dollar budget shortfall. Who thought of this bright idea? Can the School Board really be serious? The city of Los Angeles has enough problems controlling summer youth violence when summer school is in. Now the 700,000-pupil district, with the 57% graduation rate — that annually sends a quarter of its student population to summer school — wants to send nearly 200,000 latch-key children home for the summer. Do we really want to go there? |