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California School Faces Budget Cuts Because It Has Too Many White Students
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Joe Cooper
Mar 28, 2017, 2:45:41 PM3/28/17
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Nine California schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District are
facing budget cuts because they have too many white students enrolled.
Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood is one of the schools
expected to face budget cuts because the percentage of non-white students
has fallen below 70 percent, the Los Angeles Daily News reported Monday.
The cuts in funding could result in five teachers and one counselor being
let go from the school, as well as the average class size increasing from
35 to 39 students.
The funding guideline comes from a 1978 Los Angeles Superior Court-
ordered integration program, under which schools with a large minority
student population receive additional funds. The funding model requires a
school's white-student population to be below 30 percent in order to
receive the increase in funds.
For the past two years, the percentage of minority students at Walter
Reed Middle School has fallen below 70 percent, according to a letter
sent out to parents on March 22. The district has continued to give the
school the additional funds, but in the coming school year, that will no
longer be the case. The district will not categorize the school as being
a predominantly minority one in the fall.
Sandra Gephart Fontana, the instructional director for Local District
East, has said the school district is looking to change the funding for
Walter Reed to help alleviate some of the budget cuts. The funding would
be based off a per pupil model. Fontana said the change might save the
five teaching positions and the one counselor post.
"It will provide additional resources to the school and should ameliorate
the loss," Fontana said. "It's not exactly sure how many positions will
be preserved by that, but it does provide additional resources."
The change could also avert the increase in class sizes.
There are eight other schools that are at risk of budget cuts due to
their demographic changes. According to the Daily News, they are: 3rd
Street Elementary (Hancock Park), Broadway Elementary (Venice), Dahlia
Heights Elementary (Eagle Rock), Knollwood Preparatory Academy Elementary
(Granada Hills), Plainview Academic Charter Academy (Tujunga), Stonehurst
Avenue Elementary (Sun Valley), Emerson Community Charter (Westwood), and
Grant High (Valley Glen).
Not all parents are convinced that the data on Walter Reed's demographic
change is accurate, however.
Carol Kiernan Convey, coordinator for the parent-teacher-student group
Friends of Reed, believes the data is wrong. Convey claims she has heard
from several mixed-ethnicity families that they identify as white on
district documents.
"The feeling is you must be Caucasian or white to get the most
advantages," Convey said of the responses from these families. "We're
going to have to work harder to get people to fill out the forms
correctly … because they need to know that helps us."
Veronica Gonzalez, whose daughter attends Walter Reed Middle School,
described how people are identifying as white because they are confused.
"They're assuming that because you're here in the United States, you put
‘white,'" Gonzalez said.
Gonzalez also blamed the 2016 election, saying the Hispanic community is
"fearful" since November so they are identifying as white on government
documents.
Source: http://bit.ly/1wV6xsD
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facing budget cuts because they have too many white students enrolled.
Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood is one of the schools
expected to face budget cuts because the percentage of non-white students
has fallen below 70 percent, the Los Angeles Daily News reported Monday.
The cuts in funding could result in five teachers and one counselor being
let go from the school, as well as the average class size increasing from
35 to 39 students.
The funding guideline comes from a 1978 Los Angeles Superior Court-
ordered integration program, under which schools with a large minority
student population receive additional funds. The funding model requires a
school's white-student population to be below 30 percent in order to
receive the increase in funds.
For the past two years, the percentage of minority students at Walter
Reed Middle School has fallen below 70 percent, according to a letter
sent out to parents on March 22. The district has continued to give the
school the additional funds, but in the coming school year, that will no
longer be the case. The district will not categorize the school as being
a predominantly minority one in the fall.
Sandra Gephart Fontana, the instructional director for Local District
East, has said the school district is looking to change the funding for
Walter Reed to help alleviate some of the budget cuts. The funding would
be based off a per pupil model. Fontana said the change might save the
five teaching positions and the one counselor post.
"It will provide additional resources to the school and should ameliorate
the loss," Fontana said. "It's not exactly sure how many positions will
be preserved by that, but it does provide additional resources."
The change could also avert the increase in class sizes.
There are eight other schools that are at risk of budget cuts due to
their demographic changes. According to the Daily News, they are: 3rd
Street Elementary (Hancock Park), Broadway Elementary (Venice), Dahlia
Heights Elementary (Eagle Rock), Knollwood Preparatory Academy Elementary
(Granada Hills), Plainview Academic Charter Academy (Tujunga), Stonehurst
Avenue Elementary (Sun Valley), Emerson Community Charter (Westwood), and
Grant High (Valley Glen).
Not all parents are convinced that the data on Walter Reed's demographic
change is accurate, however.
Carol Kiernan Convey, coordinator for the parent-teacher-student group
Friends of Reed, believes the data is wrong. Convey claims she has heard
from several mixed-ethnicity families that they identify as white on
district documents.
"The feeling is you must be Caucasian or white to get the most
advantages," Convey said of the responses from these families. "We're
going to have to work harder to get people to fill out the forms
correctly … because they need to know that helps us."
Veronica Gonzalez, whose daughter attends Walter Reed Middle School,
described how people are identifying as white because they are confused.
"They're assuming that because you're here in the United States, you put
‘white,'" Gonzalez said.
Gonzalez also blamed the 2016 election, saying the Hispanic community is
"fearful" since November so they are identifying as white on government
documents.
Source: http://bit.ly/1wV6xsD
--
"You will never understand today's rage on the left, or its real effort
to overthrow American constitutional government, if you do not understand
lynch mobs -- KKK, Leninist, Soros-sponsored, and Obama-controlled."--
James Lewis, "Lynch Mobs of the Left," http://bit.ly/2lwmH2y
Robert Pickton
Mar 28, 2017, 6:48:42 PM3/28/17
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Byker
Mar 28, 2017, 7:22:47 PM3/28/17
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"Joe Cooper" wrote in message
news:XnsA74677A29BF...@213.239.209.88...
black paint and paint students to meet this stupid quota. Surely they can
find enough liberal white kids who identify as minorities to tip the scale.
More and more California stupidity is being reviled daily. That state is
crushing itself with liberalism, taxation, and political correctness, as
well as outright lawlessness involving illegals and politicians who violate
their oath of office.
California west of the San Andreas fault needs to just snap off and fall
into the sea. I left that state 45 years ago and will never go back.
Idiots -- ALL of them!
news:XnsA74677A29BF...@213.239.209.88...
>
> Nine California schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District are
> facing budget cuts because they have too many white students enrolled.
Only in California you can find this type of idiocy. Hey, get some cans of
> Nine California schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District are
> facing budget cuts because they have too many white students enrolled.
black paint and paint students to meet this stupid quota. Surely they can
find enough liberal white kids who identify as minorities to tip the scale.
More and more California stupidity is being reviled daily. That state is
crushing itself with liberalism, taxation, and political correctness, as
well as outright lawlessness involving illegals and politicians who violate
their oath of office.
California west of the San Andreas fault needs to just snap off and fall
into the sea. I left that state 45 years ago and will never go back.
Idiots -- ALL of them!
None of the Above
Mar 29, 2017, 3:49:01 AM3/29/17
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 18:42:42 -0000 (UTC), Joe Cooper
<drag...@removeunseen.is> wrote:
>Veronica Gonzalez, whose daughter attends Walter Reed Middle School,
>described how people are identifying as white because they are confused.
>
>"They're assuming that because you're here in the United States, you put
>層hite,'" Gonzalez said.
<drag...@removeunseen.is> wrote:
>Veronica Gonzalez, whose daughter attends Walter Reed Middle School,
>described how people are identifying as white because they are confused.
>
>"They're assuming that because you're here in the United States, you put
>
>Gonzalez also blamed the 2016 election, saying the Hispanic community is
>"fearful" since November so they are identifying as white on government
>documents.
California: Where the nuts chase the squirrels...
>Gonzalez also blamed the 2016 election, saying the Hispanic community is
>"fearful" since November so they are identifying as white on government
>documents.
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