VAN NUYS : Drive Seeks to Overturn School Boundary Lines
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A campaign to place an initiative before voters to overturn newly drawn school board boundaries was officially launched in Van Nuys on Wednesday as organizers passed out petitions and planned canvassing strategies.
The citywide initiative, which supporters hope to place on the June, 1993, ballot, would substitute a new map for the one approved by the Los Angeles City Council this summer after bitter debate. The proposed redistricting would preserve two San Fernando Valley-based seats on the seven-member Los Angeles school board, replacing a version that carved up the Valley among four representatives.
Through the initiative, a coalition of educational, political, business and civic groups opposed to the current boundaries hopes to restore the Valley’s geographical integrity and grant control of a second Board of Education seat to Latino voters--which was the goal of the original reapportionment, in accordance with the federal Voting Rights Act.
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