Measure Y Results
Question: Should the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) be authorized to issue up to $3.985 billion in general obligation bonds for new construction, repair and upgrading school facilities?The results live blogged here and your comments are welcome too.
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 11/08/2005 07:36:00 PM
11 Comments:
Hi Mayor Sam,
NO on Y!
No one in their right mind should vote otherwise.
Heck, No the developers are already making way too much money...the school pays way too much to get them built without any regard to how they spend it, they never listen to their citizens advisory board and do what they want...did you know the school district gave $5,000,000 to the Los Angeles Conservancy for historic presarvation from that money...bet you didn't...that's where that money goes....I would only have voted for it if the citizens advisory board could overule the school board....
We did an audio blogger interview with Glenn Gritzner of the LAUSD, but not sure the feature worked. If it shows up, we'll play for you, but Gritzner told us that turnout looks good and they are very confident that the measure will pass.
That's only because he hopes to have a job on Wednesday.
Good ole' Glen can thank god that turnout will be low...55% of 20% of total registered city voters is pretty simple to do....who would say no to building schools? Hopefully the voters send a message to school district.
Good job guys. Love the blog and the election coverage.
The district will now have a few billion more for new schools throughout the city. Actually the new schools are concentrated in south LA and the valley. Unfortunately Romer will be known for building first world facilities and housing a third world education.
So Y passed resoundingly. Another "victory" for the tax takers over the taxpayers. Pathetic.
While I agree with Mayors Sam and Frank, and most of the bloggers, on this proposition, you have to hand it to the voters of Los Angeles for standing up every time and throwing billions of dollars at the school problems.
At least one excuse is removed. If the results continue as they have been, at least they can't say "Boo hoo - you turned down our bond issue or it would have been different."
Alas, I fear that 12:35 AM is right.
I consider myself a strong Democrat. Voted the party line last night EXCEPT for Measure Y.
As the previous blogger said, it'll be one less excuse for the administration to claim in response to their failure to teach our kids. At least taxpayers will have additional school's to show for the money.
Regardless of the scandals, under Romer schools have been constructed for the first time in decades, and for that he should be recognized.
The real issue is the following:
At one point or another someone--the superintendent, a board member or two, someone on staff, parents, the mayor--needs to stand up and say that enough is enough. A leader needs to scream that the current situation in Los Angeles, of failure, of a bloated Beaudry beauracracy, of simulated reform, will lead this city deeper and deeper into despair. Having half of the high school age children drop out before they graduate is an extreme tragedy and does not bode well for the future of this city.
The district is run by romer as if he was governor, based on political expediency, and not on strong convictions. He calculates what things he can get by the board and acts accordingly, many times blaming the board (or his perception of them) for not allowing him to be bold enough. Romer came in promising to fix the schools. He has failed miserably. It is time for him to move on.
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