There are three public universities located within the city limits: California State University, Los Angeles California State University Northridge and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Private colleges in the city include the American Film Institute Conservatory Alliant International University, American InterContinental University, American Jewish University, The American Musical and Dramatic Academy – Los Angeles campus, Antioch University's Los Angeles campus, Art Center College of Design (Art Center), Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Los Angeles campus (FIDM), Los Angeles Film School Loyola Marymount University (LMU is also the parent university of Loyola Law School located in Los Angeles), Mount St. Mary's College, National University of California, New York Film Academy in Universal City Occidental College ("Oxy"), Otis College of Art and Design (Otis), Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Southwestern Law School, and University of Southern California (USC).
The community college system consists of nine campuses governed by the trustees of the Los Angeles Community College District: East Los Angeles College (ELAC), Los Angeles City College (LACC), Los Angeles Harbor College Los Angeles Mission College, Los Angeles Pierce College, Los Angeles Valley College Los Angeles Southwest CollegeLos Angeles Trade-Technical College and West Los Angeles College.
Los Angeles Unified School
District serves almost all of the city of Los Angeles, as well as several
surrounding communities, with a student population around 800,000. After Proposition 13 was approved in
1978, urban school districts had considerable trouble with funding. LAUSD has
become known for its underfunded, overcrowded and poorly maintained campuses,
although its 162 Magnet
schools help compete with local private schools.Several small sections of Los Angeles are in the Las Virgenes Unified School
District. Los Angeles County Office of Education operates the Los Angeles County High
School for the Arts. The Los Angeles Public Library system
operates 72 public libraries in the city. Enclaves of
unincorporated areas are served by the County of Los Angeles Public
Library, many are within walking distance to City of Los Angeles
residents.
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is the largest (in
terms of number of students) public school system in California. It is the 2nd
largest public school district in the United States. Only the New York City Department of
Education has a larger student population. During the 2007-2008 school year,
LAUSD served 694,288 students, and had 45,473 teachers and 38,494 other
employees.it is the second largest employer in Los Angeles
County, after the county government.The total school
district budget for 2009-2010 is $7.3 billion. In enrollment breakdown by ethnic group, 73% of its students were of Hispanic origin and 11% of its
students were African
American. White
American students comprise 9% of the student population, while Asian American students
comprise 4%; students of Filipino origin form 2% of the student
population. Native Americans and Pacific Islanders together are less
than 1%.
The school
district consists of Los
Angeles and all or portions of several adjoining Southern
California cities. LAUSD has its own police force, the Los Angeles School Police
Department, which was established in 1948 to provide police services for LAUSD schools.The LAUSD enrolls a third of the preschoolers in Los Angeles County, and operates
almost as many buses as the Los
Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.The
LAUSD school construction program rivals the Big Dig in terms of
expenditures, and LAUSD cafeterias serve about 500,000 meals a day, rivaling the
output of local McDonald's restaurants.
The LAUSD has a reputation for extremely crowded schools with large class
sizes, high drop-out and expulsion rates,
low academic performance in many schools, poor maintenance and incompetent
administration. in 2007, LAUSD's dropout rate was 26 percent for grades 9 through 12. Bond issues and
ambitious renovation programs have not uniformly eased these conditions .As part of its
school-construction project, LAUSD opened two high schools Santee
Education Complex and South East in
2005 and four high schools Arleta, Contreras Learning Complex, Panorama, and East Valley in 2006.
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