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LAUSD: Kids go to school where their parents work policy.....


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2011 Mar 28, 9:30am   2,203 views  6 comments

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I believe it's called "Inter-District" transfer policy... It allows you to send your kid to the school district that you or your spouse works in. I currently work in 10/10 elementary school area, and was thinking of buying a home in a 5/10 elementary school area. Odds are my wife or I will be employed in a solid school district by the time we have elementary age kids... so if this policy stays in effect, should we even bother paying a huge markup for a home in a better school district?

Mark_inLA .. ? Do you know if this "Inter-District" transfer policy will continue in the future? I know they just stopped allowing a lot of permitted transfers.. But the exception of "Intra-District" transfers for parents employed out of district remained intact....

I guess it's a gamble... But then again.. They just started plans to build a new High School in Granada Hills, that I'm sure when it's completed will syphon off students who were zoned for Granada Hills Charter School.(10/10). I'd be really pissed if I bought a house in what is currently Granada Hills Charter school district.. Only to be re-zoned to the new high school being built and run by LAUSD... It's a total crap shoot how that will turn out!

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1   LAO   2011 Mar 28, 9:49am  

I'm having trouble finding out the specific rules for "Inter-District" transfers in LAUSD also. Let's say I'm a freelance employee.. I work in Culver City one month, the next I'm working in Santa Monica, then next month I'm in the South Bay... Can i apply my future children to any district I worked during that year? Could my spouse get a part-time job in a great school district just so we can "inter-district" transfer our kids there? Just curious what the fine print on this policy is....

2   Fisk   2011 Mar 28, 9:52am  

Sure it couldn't be as simple as that, else everyone would have done this.
What is a "job"? Is babysitting in a tony neighborhood (with great schools) a "job"?

3   LAO   2011 Mar 28, 10:03am  

Fisk says

Sure it couldn’t be as simple as that, else everyone would have done this.
What is a “job”? Is babysitting in a tony neighborhood (with great schools) a “job”?

I figured it'd be some fine print standards of employment.. I know you have to re-apply every year, so you have to stay employed in that district or say to your kids.. "sorry, dad got fired, now you have to go to a different, crappier school"

I did some research it's call the "Allen Law" or "Allen Bill".. so it's not just a simple policy.. It's an actual LAW.. so I'd imagine it's less likely to be over-turned.

4   EBGuy   2011 Mar 28, 11:07am  

Please take what I say with a grain of salt; before last week I had never even read CA Education Code. From what I can tell Section 48204 (b) is what you're referring to:
(b) A school district may deem a pupil to have complied with the
residency requirements for school attendance in the district if at
least one parent or the legal guardian of the pupil is physically
employed within the boundaries of that district.

You may want to take note of Section 48204 (c), which, as far as I can tell sunsets the above provisions:
(c) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2012, and as
of January 1, 2013, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that
becomes operative on or before January 1, 2013, deletes or extends
the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.

At that point (2013), I believe you're reliant on SECTION 46600 onward for setting the terms of inter-district transfers. This appears to me to be a bit more restrictive, but it's a bit to dense for me to digest and distill.

5   OO   2011 Mar 28, 11:52am  

Not knowing the situation in LA, but I would venture to guess that the application of such laws by a certain school district is highly dependent on their current capacity utilization. Many desirable school districts in the Bay Area have an overflow problem, PUSD and CUSD, for example, all have overflows, and even up-and-coming schools in Fremont near Mission San Jose have the same issue. I would be very surprised that any school district with an overflow problem is incentivized to let in new enrollments through transfer program.

6   tekkierich   2011 Mar 28, 1:22pm  

that is fine, but I would rather my kid goes to school with the neighbors.

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