General information about CSUN LAUSD school  is here

The last meeting was on 2-13-02  Here is  report on the meeting 

The Northridge community council has established an education committee to deal with educational issues in Northridge. Its first project will be dealing with the proposed LAUSD CSUN high school.

Any stakeholder may join this committee.  To participate online please send an e-mail message. We expect a considerable amount of the committee’s work will be reviewing, contributing and collaborating on documents online. The short time fuse would seem to make online collaboration the best way to get the job done while achieving multiple inputs from the community.

The Northridge committee council will be routinely faced with issues that cannot wait until a regular meeting because the city and other agencies are only required to give a 72-hour notice on issues. With the short time notice this seems to be the only way.

We are now working on the formal response to the entire project, which has to be presented to the LAUSD board on 3-19-02, one day before our next meeting.

The traffic study concerning the new school will be the first document we drafted. It is a formal response to the study and was sent on 2-4-02.

General information about the project is here

We expect the e-mail traffic from the Education Committee to be fairly frequent. They will typically have Word documents attached for you to comment on. We will be using Word so that you can set it to show you changes by clicking under tools - track changes - highlight changes - track changes while editing - highlighted changes on screen.

This will produce a Word document that shows your additions and deletions from the original document. We intend to post all these proposed revisions online so that the committee members can see the changes as we go towards  the final document. In this way each person has a input in the final document and we can benefit from everyone's diverse opinions and knowledge.

We will be posting, soon information concerning attendance data for the schools in local area. A quick look shows that the residents within a school area will not fill up any schools except for those along the freeway. What is occurring is a sizable amount of students are being transported to fill the empty seats in the schools.

For example, many of you have heard that Granada Hills High will be forced to go multi-track. What you have not heard is that it is solely because 1200 students are being transported into the community. LAUSD, because of it’s inability to build schools in the communities where the students live, is transporting students to other communities. This forces these schools to go multi- track. This simultaneously damages communities by having multi-trick schools for the local students and the students who have to waste hours in a bus everyday.

A separate group headed by Jim Parker, now named the mid Valley Coalition,  formerly the White Oak neighbors, is going ahead independently of the council. We offer to post their proposals on our website and they are of course  are invited to join our education committee.

Charles Brink, Education Committee Chairman 818-886-5223

Northridge Community Council