South L.A. residents fight home demolition
South L.A. residents fight home demolition
By BETTY PLEASANT, Contributing Editor 24.JAN.06
SOUTH LOS ANGELES — Enraged and frustrated residents of a local neighborhood converged on Los Angeles Unified School District officials Monday evening to learn of the district’s decision to remove six homes so it can build another elementary school in the neighborhood.
The residents, mobilized by the 108th Street/Hoover Neighborhood Association, flocked to the Bret Harte Middle School auditorium where Roderick Hamilton, the school district’s regional development manager, informed them that his department will seek approval to build a new elementary school, called South Region Elementary School No. 8, on the northeast corner of Vermont Avenue and Imperial Highway...
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LAUSD is charged with building nearly 100 new K-12 educational facilities in South Los Angeles in an effort to combat school overcrowdedness. Unfortunately, the LAUSD is using eminent domain powers without providing true and inclusive collaboration with the communities they are targeting. And without the benefit of a good PR team, they consistently are viewed in a negative light as they take property away in predominantly African American communities--the same communities victimized by "urban renewal" policies of the 1940's, 50's and 60's.
South Los Angeles desperately needs more schools to relieve overcrowded classrooms.
But if the LAUSD continues along its current paternalistic path of taking land without meaningful community input, its job of providing education to our young people will only get tougher.
By BETTY PLEASANT, Contributing Editor 24.JAN.06
SOUTH LOS ANGELES — Enraged and frustrated residents of a local neighborhood converged on Los Angeles Unified School District officials Monday evening to learn of the district’s decision to remove six homes so it can build another elementary school in the neighborhood.
The residents, mobilized by the 108th Street/Hoover Neighborhood Association, flocked to the Bret Harte Middle School auditorium where Roderick Hamilton, the school district’s regional development manager, informed them that his department will seek approval to build a new elementary school, called South Region Elementary School No. 8, on the northeast corner of Vermont Avenue and Imperial Highway...
Here's the full article
LAUSD is charged with building nearly 100 new K-12 educational facilities in South Los Angeles in an effort to combat school overcrowdedness. Unfortunately, the LAUSD is using eminent domain powers without providing true and inclusive collaboration with the communities they are targeting. And without the benefit of a good PR team, they consistently are viewed in a negative light as they take property away in predominantly African American communities--the same communities victimized by "urban renewal" policies of the 1940's, 50's and 60's.
South Los Angeles desperately needs more schools to relieve overcrowded classrooms.
But if the LAUSD continues along its current paternalistic path of taking land without meaningful community input, its job of providing education to our young people will only get tougher.
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