Proposed comments (html)
by Anita SantoSpirito Zelzah/Northridge Homeowner Group
Northridge Community Council Education Committee |
The first document we will be drafting is a formal response to the traffic study concerning the new school. This will be due on 2-4-02.
Proposed comments (html)
by Anita SantoSpirito Zelzah/Northridge Homeowner Group
Proposed comments (html)
by Charles Brink, Education Committee
Chairman 818-886-5223
Proposed comments (html)
by John Chandler Northridge resident
Proposed comments (html)
by Phyllis and Larry Marquardt Northridge residents
Final response as sent to LAUSD 2-4-02 8:54pm
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, later today, on the Website 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.
We now have on the Web site the revision to the traffic study.
http://www.northridgecouncil.org/lasud/lausdcsuntr2-1.htm
But again, LAUSD refuses to make it available in any reasonable electronic form. Our conversion process from the unusable PDF to HTML damages the tables. If you have a high speed access, we have a link to our site to the 25 meg PDF which is about 200 times as big as our 120K HTML.
