Going against the trickle of editorials against L.A. Unified's parcel tax measure on next month's ballot, Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez today tells readers to vote for the $100 levy.
He has special qualification to weigh in on Measure E, he says: an actual child in an actual LAUSD school.
It changes your whole perspective. You know the entrenched problems and challenges in greater detail, but you also know more about the good work done by so many unheralded teachers and administrators. More important, you appreciate that as adults in ivory towers debate the merits of an $8.33 monthly fee per household to help schools devastated by budget cuts, hundreds of thousands of children are waiting on an answer.
The district's essentially nonexistent campaign for the measure hasn't exactly generated enthusiasm among editorial boards locally (Breeze, LAT
I am voting NO on this measure. I am going to be a new homeowner and my taxes are already high enough. LAUSD needs to live within its means. Start firing the hundreds of do nothing school administrators. Each school should only have one principal and no more than 2 vice principals. Also start closing these "alternative schools" for kids with discipline problems. If the kids do not want to be there then throw them out after they turn 16.