March 14, 2004

LA Public Schools. "[the] district's students are 72 percent Hispanic, 12 percent African American, 9 percent white. Two-thirds of the students in kindergarten through third grade come from homes in which English is not the first language. The district, where students speak 72 languages, has more students -- about 750,000 -- than 27 individual states have and a budget larger than the entire state budget of Colorado ..". more GEORGE WILL on ROY ROMER and the Los Angeles public Schools. Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack