Top LAUSD Schools with Empty Seats Shut Out Needy Students, Report Says

Top LAUSD Schools with Empty Seats Shut Out Needy Students, Report Says

Dozens of highly-rated Los Angeles Unified schools in wealthy neighborhoods have empty seats — but most students can’t access them, according to a new analysis of state enrollment data.    “Crisis in the School House,” a 36-page report published by Available To All, a nonpartisan nonprofit led by Tim DeRoche, an author and parent who lives in Los Angeles, draws on official attendance data for LAUSD’s zoned elementary schools for the years 1995 t…