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Reseda Neighborhood Council Asks City For Help

With the LAUSD unwilling to help Shirley Avenue Elementary School an appeal is made to the City of LA to stop an “inequitable colocation.”

Carl J. Petersen
Age of Awareness
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4 min readJul 29, 2021

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“Why does the district just give them whatever they want? I understand it’s a law, but isn’t there a law to protect our BIPOC communities from gentrification? They don’t have the same demographics as Shirley and isn’t that part of PROP 39? Someone should expose their real demographics.”

- Erick, a parent at Shirley Elementary

As the co-location of Shirley Avenue Elementary School enters its second year the students of this public school are about to lose even more space. Despite the fact that Citizens of the World missed its enrollment projections during the last year, it is requesting that the LAUSD provide it with two additional classrooms this year. The district plans to comply despite the fact that as of June 7, 2021, the charter school chain has a past-due balance of $974,629.67 for

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Carl J. Petersen
Carl J. Petersen

Written by Carl J. Petersen

Parent, special education advocate and former LAUSD School Board candidate. Still fighting for the children. www.ChangeTheLAUSD.com

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