i need the most common reason for calif school  overcrowding
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To many kids, not enough schools.
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REASONS LIKE THIS-\nThe following 10 facts have been pulled from the LA Times. \n\n\n1. L.A. County has 10 million people. 40% of all workers in L.A. County are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card.\n\n\n2. Of the 10 million people in L.A. County, 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak only Spanish.\n\n3. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.\n\n4. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.\n\n5. Over two-thirds of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers.\n\n6. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.\n\n7. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.\n\n8. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.\n\n9. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.\n\n10. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish language only
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Here is a link for the top 120 big California schools.  Good luck!\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/rhorii/Rankings.html
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try http://www.nea.org/columns/presview11-06.html and this link I will give you is good http://www.ask.com/web?o=ie7&qsrc=6&l=dir&q=Why+Do+High+School+Students+Drop+Out%3F\n\nGood Luck!!!
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If it is illegal a lot of classrooms in California are breaking the law.  I have been teaching for 4 years half of the classrooms I have been in have a sink (I rotate so we are talking about a lot of classrooms).
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You need to provide more information. High school results for what; student grades, teacher certification, student-teacher ratios, meals provided, costs of cooling the classrooms, transportation provided, etc, etc, etc? Your question is similar to "Why does it take so long in Indiana"? To provide an answer to a question a person needs to first provide a topic.
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It's not necessarily a matter of corruption.  California also has a huge population and a large debt.  In the past few years we have suffered many cutbacks in all areas of government.  Cracking down harder on traffic violations has the joint effect of helping to alleviate the fiscal problems as well as getting people to be more careful when they drive.
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Contact the school district and ask them. Chances are, it's a result of the budget cuts. This happened in Santa Barbara County, too. They cut the number of clases available, cut all enrichment classes and only allowed kids who were behind to attend summer school. I'm sure it's happened across the country. Schools are really hurting right now.\n\nOther signs of budget cuts: \nTaking out every other light in the classroom.\nNot enough text books for every kid.\nExtra-curricular activities cut.\nFewer non-required classes.\nCuts or elimination of music, drama, art, journalism programs. \nReduction or elimination of field trips.\nCuts in teacher supply budget.\nLarger class size.\n\nThe only thing that hasn't been cut are the salaries of the administrators. Check it out. Your superintendent of the school system probably has a larger salary than the governor's (not counting Arnold's other income, of course, but just his governor's salary.)\n\nThank you George Dubya.
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First of all one thing really doesn't have anything to do with the other.  You need to check the drop out rate school by school.  Some schools are doing GREAT.  True not all but why fix what is not broken.  As for the schools with a high dropout rate.  Each has to be assesed on a case by case basis.  What is the main reason for the drop out rate.  English or Math.  Or does it have to do with ethnicity.  Plus there are 8 districts.  In mine we have almost 80 schools.  Audit the schools that are not closing the achievement gap.  Learn from the schools that are.  Did you know that this year 53 LAUSD schools recieved Academic Achievement Awards?!  Thats right.  Audit the whole thing could take forever.  Lets start with the PI 5 plus years and move down from there.  I am sure if we paid closer attention to the funding at those schools things could/would turn around.
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Stay in school because most of the fool jobs are taken.There is an abundance of fools and the compitition is murder.Even though a few have been elected to public office.
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Talk to the principal of the school.  I'm sure they can arrange something.\n\nSue them if they don't see things your way.
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wow!!!!!! i am not in LA but close by. the schools were completely empty! and every student is worth 40$ to the school, when we are absent, 4 each person, the school loses 40 buck!
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Wow -- didn't know it's been that many.  Just watched a documentary on the "Arena" in Cali.  All those inmates in that one place.  The laws need to be more strick for gang activity (not all this revolving door craziness).  Maybe the Terminator needs to kick butt!
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Good question.  The text of the proposition itself does not make any mention of the specific percentage of California state revenues that must go to education (the act provides for monies to go to school districts and community college districts).  Rather, there is a formula:\n\n"SECTION 8. School Funding Priority\n\n(a) From all state revenues there shall first be set apart the monies to be applied by the state for support of the public school system and public institutions of higher education.\n\n(b) Commencing with the 1988-89 fiscal year, the monies to be applied by the state for the support of school districts and community college districts shall be not less than the greater of:\n\n(1) The amount which, as a percentage of the State General Fund revenues which may be appropriated pursuant to Article XIIIB, equals the percentage of such State General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts and community college districts, respectively, in fiscal year 1986-87; or\n\n(2) The amount required to ensure that the total allocations to school districts and community college districts from the State General Fund proceeds of taxes appropriated pursuant to Article XIIIB and allocated local proceeds of taxes shall not be less than the total amount from these sources in the prior year, adjusted for increases in enrollment, and adjusted for changes in the cost of living pursuant to the provisions of Article XIIIB.\n\n(c) The provisions of subdivision (b) of this Section may be suspended for one year by the enactment of an urgency statute pursuant to Section 8 of Article IV, provided that no urgency statute enacted under this subdivision, may be made part of or included within any bill enacted pursuant to Section 12 of Article IV."\n\nA look at newspaper articles published since the passage of Proposition 98 indicate that the percentage fluctuates with state revenue (e.g. in 1997 then Governor Pete Wilson maintained that Proposition 98 mandated that 60% of all spending go to schools -- see San Jose Mercury, 1/13/97).  Also, in an editorial on 4/28/97 the L.A. Daily News highlights how school spending can decline precipitously during economic downturns.
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Something you might want to do is look in local or school newspapers and see what issues come up. One issue may be the exit exam tests here in California. This is an issue because many teens are failing the test and are not passing highschool. SOmething that can be done about it is protesting, writing to local congress and getting involved in the process.\n\nI am hesitant to let you get away with doing a speech on why it sucks to not be allowed to bring iPods to school or something like that. So really try to think of a realistic issue teens face.\n\nLike:\nSex, drugs\nPressure from parents.\nDivorce at home\nNo community outreach to teenagers.\n\nGood luck
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whether it's fair or not, limiting budgets will increase the parity.  i don't think parity can ever be equalized since certain factors will always be different - things like school size, location, admissions standards, etc.
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the school because it occured on their time and property. Hope your kids get ok.