Angelenos hit the polls today to vote on Measure EE. Here's what our editorial board had to say about it:
Fifth grade students listen to instructor Yoland Jordan in a classroom at 99th Street Elementary school in South Los Angeles on Jan. 17. in 2016. Boston schools spent more than $22,000 on each student.
L.A. Unified has little or no chance of offering an excellent education to its 600,000 students without more resources.That’s why voters urgently need to approve Measure EE, which would raise about $500 million a year, or about $750 per student, by instituting a new parcel tax on residential and commercial property throughout the school district.
If passed, the bulk of the money raised by Measure EE would be spent, officials say, on new hires, as required under the district’s new contract with United Teachers Los Angeles. By the end of three years, the plan is to reduce class sizes by an average of four students, place a full-time nurse at every school, hire dozens of counselors, and increase library services at every school.
A late-in-the-game change in the wording of the measure caused a bit of a stir about exactly which structures would be taxed, and a lawsuit already has been filed claiming that this change was too significant to be allowed without a vote of the L.A. Unified Board of Education. The contention revolves around whether the tax covers only “habitable” space, such as the living quarters of a house, or whether it also includes structures such as garages. The change had removed the word “habitable.
Reduced class sizes, for instance, are immensely popular with parents, but the evidence on their usefulness is mixed. Will it make a real difference in student learning if there are four fewer students in most classes? That remains to be seen — and if turns out to be of little value, it shouldn’t be continued once the union contract is ended.Our bigger concern is that L.A. Unified has generally been remiss when it comes to measuring its own programs and progress.
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