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Ways to give back this holiday season...page 16 Pacific Area Police Officers collect toys for their Winter Wonderland toy giveaway program that will be held Saturday, December 12 at the Pacific Area Station.
School District outlines plans for growing enrollment at PVES, new middle school Parents and community members packed the Wright STEAM Magnet auditorium on November 16 to hear from Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) representatives about a facilities plan to address the growing student enrollment needs at Playa Vista Elementary School (PVES).
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Al Grazioli, Director of LAUSD’s Facilities Asset Development, explained that the Playa Vista community is one of only three areas in all of LAUSD where enrollment has exceeded capacity, leaving the massive district struggling to find a solution to accommodate an estimated 400
extra students by 2020. The problem is space because those students will require an estimated 10-14 additional classrooms. A multi-track calendar may have helped ease the overcrowding, but that has been eliminated due to the district’s building program. Grazioli said the district is trying to accommodate
the growth without resorting to draconian measures. “We needed to try and identity a solution that would accommodate somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 new students coming to this area and we wanted to maintain the goals that we had previously, which was (continued on page 4)
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