Amazing editorial in the LA Times last Friday. Not for what it says, but for what it ignores.
The editorial notes that LAUSD scores are marginally up, mostly among white and asian kids, but that scores among Latinos and African-Americans are down. Apparently way down, as, buried in the next-to-last paragraph is the fundamental statistic:
In L.A. Unified, 77% of the students are Latino, 12% are black and 72% come from low- income families.What does this really mean? That anybody and everybody who possibly can has put their children in private schools. Only 11% of the LAUSD enrollment is white or asian. Given that half the population has gotten out, even African-Americans are underrepresented. The east-side schools are running year-round and double sessions and the valley and westside schools are either empty or receiving bussed-in kids.