Op-Ed: What happens when public schools bleed students? (via latimesopinion)
for the decline in enrollment — outmigration from the city, low birthrates, fewer immigrants. Add to that competition from charters and private schools, and the nation’s second biggest district, once about 750,000 strong, has drifted to less than 500,000. And so the ground that public schools have been losing for a long time feels like it’s giving away beneath our feet, with no clear remedy in sight.Large urban districts, including L.A. Unified, accounted for about one-third of the decline.
I know something about this firsthand. In 1972 I was bused out of my South-Central neighborhood to a white elementary school in Westchester several miles away, for a gifted program not available at my neighborhood school. It was not without racial and social tensions, but I did fine academically, as did many other bused-in Black students. This early attempt to equalize schools via a program for students with clear promise was in many ways a success.
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