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Is the Los Angeles Unified School District going in the right direction or is it business as usual. Tell your story. I bet I could write a book about the rights and wrongs.

LAUSD ON WRONG TRACK WITH ONE-PATH SYSTEM.

The Los Angeles Unified School district its priorities set wrong. This Los Angeles Daily News piece just confirms that opinion.

Acknowledging the growing force of globalization, the Los Angeles Unified School District is gearing up an ambitious program to offer Mandarin Chinese language and culture courses at all of its middle and high schools.The plan, which will go to the board next month, calls for the courses to be offered at about 200 middle and high schools, and each of the LAUSD’s eight local districts also would have at least one dual-immersion program in which students started studying the language in kindergarten. The move would be one of the largest of its kind in the nation and would put Los Angeles Unified on the cutting edge of language and culture instruction in public schools.Superintendent David Brewer III touted the plan at a Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce luncheon last week. He called it “embarrassing” in his years as an admiral that the U.S. Navy is the only one in the world whose sailors speak just one language.

“It’s arrogance. Every student in China is taking English classes,” he said.

LAUSD has been working for the past 18 months with Mandarin in the Schools – a local panel created by a prominent national nonpartisan Chinese-American organization called the Committee of 100 – on how to expand the classes in Los Angeles schools.

“It has been a long-standing policy of the LAUSD to allow the use of public school facilities after hours only to non-profit organizations.

That’s why the Sunland-Tujanga community got so aroused when it found out Mt. Gleason school was being turned over to Home Depot for a community meeting June 24 to win support for its effort to convert a closed K-Mart into one of their stores”