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Revision as of 00:09, 10 December 2018 edit undo69.65.90.61 (talk) Misplaced Pages weakness has been taken out! I have seen the LBUSD school pictures and i hardly ever see students wearing uniforms, not even those in elementary or middle! So the uniform policy actually is enforced but is not welcome to most schools in the district. Please correct me if wrong, thank you!Tag: section blankingNext edit → |
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==History== |
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As of 1993 several parents in the LBUSD boundaries enrolled their children in the ] day care program so that they could then use LBUSD district transfer rules, stating that parents may enroll their children at a school closest to their daycare provider even if the school is in another school district, to obtain an inter-district transfer from the Los Alamitos district and send their children to Los Alamitos schools. As a result, LBUSD was losing money, because state education funds were paid based on attendance. Horn said "It was never anyone's intention to make the (child-care) program a drawing card from other school districts. It did turn out that way."<ref name=Dillow1/> Gordon Dillow of the '']'' said "Although school officials say they do not track the racial make-up of their inter-district transfer students, the perception has been that many, perhaps most, of the Long Beach-to-Los Alamitos transfer students are Anglo."<ref name=Dillow1/> Whites were a minority in LBUSD, with 26% of the student body, while they were a majority at Los Alamitos USD, with 75% of the student body. In the 1992-1993 school year, 400 students who lived in LBUSD attended Los Alamitos schools because a parent was working at Los Alamitos schools or because of the after school program. Dillow said that while the loss of that number of students from LBUSD, with 76,000 students, "may not seem significant, but it does cause the school district to lose about $4,000 per year for each student in state education funding."<ref name=Dillow1>Dillow, Gordon. "Schools Fight Flight of Students to Los Alamitos : Education: Day care services in the upscale district drain pupils who later enroll in its elementaries. Long Beach plans to start its own programs--and recapture state funding." '']''. August 22, 1993. . Retrieved on November 1, 2012.</ref> LBUSD began investigating the idea of establishing before and after school programs at its schools so that parents could no longer use the loophole.<ref name=Dillow1/> LBUSD established a new after school program, "Kid's Club." 140 were enrolled in August 1993 and the district expected a total of 300 to be enrolled by the beginning of the school year.<ref name=Dillow2>Dillow, Gordon. "Schools Fight Flight of Students to Los Alamitos : Education: Day care services in the upscale district drain pupils who later enroll in its elementaries. Long Beach plans to start its own programs--and recapture state funding." '']''. August 22, 1993. . Retrieved on November 1, 2012.</ref> |
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On January 18, 1994, the LBUSD Board of Education voted to require ]s in all elementary and middle schools, with the wearing of school uniforms to start in September 1994.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lbusd.k12.ca.us/uniforms/article_13.asp |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-01-12 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060106092843/http://www.lbusd.k12.ca.us/uniforms/article_13.asp |archivedate=2006-01-06 |df= }}</ref> The district was the first large urban school district in the United States to require school uniforms.<ref name="a3">{{cite web |url=http://www.lbusd.k12.ca.us/uniforms/article_3.asp |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-01-12 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060106094411/http://www.lbusd.k12.ca.us/uniforms/article_3.asp |archivedate=2006-01-06 |df= }}</ref> On August 23, 1994, SB 1269 the School Uniform Law was approved by the Governor of California to support schools that adopt a school-wide uniform policy, which also allowed parents to opt out of the policy.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lbusd.k12.ca.us/uniforms/uniforms.asp |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-01-12 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060106090002/http://www.lbusd.k12.ca.us/uniforms/uniforms.asp |archivedate=2006-01-06 |df= }}</ref> At LBUSD, roughly 2% of the students opt out of the uniform policy.<ref name="a3" /> |
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Since starting the uniform policy, LBUSD claimed assaults dropped by two-thirds, suspensions dropped by almost a third, vandalism dropped, attendance improved, and test scores increased. President ] mentioned LBUSD's uniform policy in his 1996 ]. Numerous other large urban districts have now adopted school uniform policies.<ref name="a3" /> |
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Some researchers, including David Brunsma of the Sociology Department of ], have said that the benefits ascribed to the implementation of the LBUSD uniform policy were logically attributable to other factors; such as increased school security, collateral attendance enforcement efforts, and in-class programs designed to bolster sagging test scores.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rcp.missouri.edu/articles/brunsma.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-01-26 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901123420/http://rcp.missouri.edu/articles/brunsma.html |archivedate=2006-09-01 |df= }}</ref> |
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LBUSD now has two high schools, ], and ], that require school uniforms as well.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lbusd.k12.ca.us/public_information/2004_news_articles/n040123c.asp |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2005-12-08 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061003205257/http://www.lbusd.k12.ca.us/public_information/2004_news_articles/n040123c.asp |archivedate=2006-10-03 |df= }}</ref> |
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In 1999, ] became the first public middle school in the United States to convert entirely to single gender classes. Only a few dozen more schools have followed this trend, mostly because of ] of the 1972 Education Act, which prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded programs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lbusd.k12.ca.us/public_information/2004_news_articles/n040402e.asp |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2005-12-08 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061003205326/http://www.lbusd.k12.ca.us/public_information/2004_news_articles/n040402e.asp |archivedate=2006-10-03 |df= }}</ref> The school has plans to discontinue the program after scheduling conflicts and disappointing test scores.<ref>http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_5247847</ref> |
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In 2001, there was a movement to form a Lakewood Unified School District. Because students in the city of ] are currently divided between four different school districts (], ], ] and LBUSD), a petition was started. After gathering the required number of petition signatures and an LA County review, the issue went before the ]. The board rejected the petition on February 8, 2001 because the board said the proposed district failed to meet four of the state's nine criteria for new district formation. With that setback, the most current plans ({{As of|2005|lc=on}}) are to try to merge those areas of Lakewood served by Paramount into either the Bellflower or Long Beach Unified School Districts.<ref>http://www.pasleyrealty.com/lakewood.htm</ref> |
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==District awards== |
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