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Could you imagine the outrage if the headlines stated the reverse? "Funding cuts due to increase in minority students." There would be riots and public outrage for months.
http://abc7.com/education/race-based-school-budget-cuts-spark-outrage-in-noho/1818792/Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood is one of nine schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District facing staff cuts and in turn larger class sizes because the percentage of nonwhite students has dipped below 70 percent.
Following a 1978 Los Angeles Superior Court-ordered integration program, LAUSD schools in neighborhoods with large minority populations get more funding when the proportion of white students is below 30 percent.
The nonwhite population at Reed Middle School has fallen below the 70 percent mark for the past two years, according to a March 22 letter sent to parents from Local District Northeast Superintendent Linda Del Cueto. The district has continued to fund the school as if it still met the 70 percent threshold of Hispanic, black, Asian and non-Anglo students. But in the fall, the school will no longer be counted as predominantly minority.
Parents, however, remain frustrated with what the cuts might mean for their children.
"When your class sizes are getting larger and you're taking resources away from students, I mean ss parents, you do want your kid to go out to college," one parent, Rosemary Estrada, said.
In an attempt to lessen the budget cuts, the district changed the school's spending formula to one based on the number of students.
"Thankfully we're going to keep our librarian. We're going to keep our nurse, but we may lose a few teachers, but not as many as we once thought," said Sheila Edmiston, one student's parent.
Several jobs will still be lost and class sizes could grow. For many parents, the race-based reason of "too many white students" has made the cuts more difficult to swallow.
Could you imagine the outrage if the headlines stated the reverse? "Funding cuts due to increase in minority students." There would be riots and public outrage for months.