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box 1,423, folder 1-4, box 1,422, box 1,421, folder 6-10
Music 1945-1997
Music program brochures, correspondence urging the continuation of music programs,
letters of appreciation for music program and orchestras, May 1956 photo of Clover
Avenue Elementary School Orchestra, Memoranda on field trips to opera performances and
The Music Center of Los Angeles County's "Educational and Community Service Programs
for Students" Report to the Board.
box 1,423, folder 5
box 1,424
Narcotics 1950 January 5-1999 October 26
Presentation from the ACLU on drug arrests, due process and secret police,
correspondence pertaining to drug arrests and student rights, Los Angeles Times
article, "City's Schools Called 'Open Marketplace' for Drug Use," correspondence from
Ramiro J. Garcia, Chairman of the Mexican American Education Commission concerning the
District's alliance with the Los Angeles Police Department, undercover officers and
violations of student civil rights, "Drug Abuse Control: Policies and Procedures,"
Narcotics: The Menace to Children, Youth and Narcotics: A Study of Juvenile Drug
Addiction in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Police Department, Alcohol, Tobacco and
Other Narcotics: Suggestive Guide for Teachers of the Junior High School Program in
Science, Information and Suggestions for the Teaching of Narcotics and Their Effects,
Communications, Reports and Newsletters on the Drug Abuse Resistance (DARE)
Program.
box 1,431
National Defense 1940 June 28-1947 March 20
Memoranda, reports and correspondence concerning national defense training classes,
purchase of equipment and supplies, budget, use of buildings, salaries, defense
centers, testing laboratories and meetings.
Materials also include "Partners in Defense," a Los Angeles City Schools publication
on "Women's Special Work in National Defense" and National Defense Training Program
Progress Reports and Annual Reports.
For National Defense - Negroes see Race Question subject files.
box 1,432, folder 1
National Youth Administration 1936-1942
Reports and applications for National Youth Administration projects which include the
following areas: Agriculture, building construction, school cafeterias, clerical,
gardening, horticulture, homemaking, motion pictures, sewing, cooking, school ground
beautification and war production.
box 1,432, folder 2
box 1,433-1,436, box 1,432, folder 3-5
Negative Declaration 1996-2006
Facilities Committee Reports, Board Reports from the Office of Environmental Health
and Safety and Initial Studies and Proposals for the adoption of the Final Mitigated
Negative Declaration (MND) for various building projects pursuant to the California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and State CEQA Guidelines.
box 1,437, folder 1
box 1,437, folder 2-3
No Child Left Behind 2003 May 27-2006 December 14
box 1,437, folder 4
Noise 1974 June 6-1990 March 19
Copies of Board Communications and Reports concerning excessive noise and
disturbances in the Board room, airport and freeway noise, noise abatement programs
and measures and a copy of the September 22, 1980 Board Minutes during which State
Assemblywoman Maxine Waters, City Councilman Gilbert W. Lindsay and City Councilman
Robert C. Farrell expressed objections to a remark made by Board President Roberta
Weintraub against Board member Rita Walters during a radio interview.
box 1,437, folder 5
box 1,437, folder 6
Nondiscrimination 1991-1992
Memorandum on Posting and Distribution of Notice of Nondiscrimination and a Human
Resources Nondiscrimination Poster containing compliance language from Title IX of the
Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Title
VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
box 1,437, folder 7
Non-Immigrants 1978 September 25-1987 April 6
Inter-office correspondence on the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, a
Guide to School Personnel on Terms Related to International Students, a Bulletin on
Admission and Attendance of Noncitizen Students in Elementary and Secondary Schools
and a Committee of the Whole Communication regarding Reimbursement for Cost of
Education of Noncontract Pupils.
box 1,437, folder 8
box 1,437, folder 9
box 1,437, folder 10
box 1,437, folder 11
Non-Resident Students 1982 September 20-1986 January 6
box 1,437, folder 12
box 1,437, folder 13
box 1,438
box 1,439, folder 1
box 1,439, folder 2
box 1,439, folder 3-6
box 1,440
Office of Urban Affairs 1963 June 24-1982 May 3
Proposal to establish an Office of Urban Affairs in order to meet the new challenges
brought on by urbanization problems such as intergroup relations, dropouts, youth
employment, compensatory education and delinquency. On November 7, 1963, the Office of
Urban Affairs was established by the Board to deal with racial issues, dropouts and
alleged discrimination against minority employees and students. According to the Los
Angeles Times, "School Board Creates Urban Affairs Office," during the meeting when
the Office was approved, members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) gathered in
corridors to protest alleged de facto segregation and an "estimated 60 students,
parents and clergy planned to conduct an all-night sit-in."
Materials also include the Office's informative reports to the Board, publications
such as Nuestra Comunidad, Vandalism Seminar, Gang Activities, Asian-American Profile,
South Central Los Angeles School-Community Profile, San Fernando Valley Profile,
Community Profiles and Orientation to Central Los Angeles and Improving Intergroup
Relations: A Handbook for Teachers.
Also included are copies of the Community Network's newsletter, "The Community
Networker."
Other materials include Office of Urban Affairs reports to the Board,
correspondence
box 1,441, folder 1
Olympic Games - 1984 1984 May 24-1985 April 23
box 1,441, folder 2-3
box 1,441, folder 4
box 1,441, folder 5
Opportunity Unit Programs 1982 February 16-1982 February 22
Board of Education District maps, Inter-office correspondence and Educational
Development Committee Communication on Cities in Schools, Inc., a non-profit
corporation based in Atlanta, Georgia. The program provides a means of coordinating
school district and community resources designed to address specific problems of
youth.
box 1,441, folder 6
box 1,441, folder 7-10
Ordinances 1935 January 21-1962 January 15
Board Reports and Communications concerning or proposing Los Angeles City Council and
County Ordinances for removal of temporary housing, objectionable comic books and
street vendors.
Materials include petitions of protest against the proposed construction of the
Alcoholic Clinic on the corner of Melrose Avenue and Alta Vista Boulevard, 100 yards
from Melrose Avenue Elementary School.
box 2,071, folder 4-5, box 1,442-1,515, box 2,072-2,074
Organization 1932 July 1-2009 August 5
Division and Branch files related to the organization of the District.
Box 1,442: Division of Secondary Education (1955-1969).
Box 1,443: Division of Secondary Education, Secondary Division Decentralization, Zone
A, B and C (1946-1971).
Box 1,444: Zone D, Division of Elementary Education (1945-1970).
Box 1,445: Expansion of Elementary Division, Various Elementary Subjects, Division of
Career and Continuing Education (1946-1976).
Box 1,446: Occupational Education Branch (see Division of Career and Continuing
Education), Division of Adult Education, Organizational Charts (1946-1972).
Box 1,447: Organizational Charts, Health Education and Health Services Branch
(1972-1975).
Box 1,448: Health Education and Health Services Branch, Division of Instructional
Planning Services (1945-1972).
Box 1,449: Proposed Division of School Information, Architectural and Building
Branch, Maintenance and Operation Branch (1943-1976).
Box 1,450: Physical Education, Safety and Youth Services Branch, Counseling and
Guidance Service Branch, Guidance and Counseling Section (see Pupil Services and
Guidance Branch), Personnel - Secretarial Division (1934-1976).
Box 1,451: Personnel - Secretarial Division, Maintenance Branch (1936-1983).
Box 1,452: Architectural and Engineering Branch, Construction Inspection Branch,
Purchasing Branch (1945-1983).
Box 1,453: Supplies and Equipment Branch, Deputy Superintendent Business and
Education Services, Deputy Superintendent Instruction, Office of Associate
Superintendent Instruction, Acting Assistant Superintendent, Suggested Successors to
Assistant Superintendent (1946-1978).
Box 1,454: Payroll Section, Report of Feasibility of Electronic Computer Installation
for L.A. City Schools (1948-1974).
Box 1,455: Cafeteria, Food Services Branch (1944-1968).
Box 1,456: Food Services Branch, Price and Portion Schedule, Lunches (1949-1976).
Box 1,457: Educational Support Services, Advisement Service, Auxiliary Services,
Support Services, Special Education Division (1946-1983).
Box 1,458: Pupil Services and Attendance (Division of Special Services), Pupil
Services and Guidance Branch, Division of Planning and Research (1948-1981).
Box 1,459: Security Section, Stores Operations (1947-1976).
Box 1,460: Security Section, "Racism, Repression and Inefficiency in the Deployment
and Practices of School Security" Report presented to the Board on July 30, 1979,
Civic Center Permits, Mail Unit, Board Report Assembly Unit, Pupil Record and
Microfilm Section, Special Assignment Section, Tabulating Machine Services Section,
Telephone Unit, Thrift, Conservation and School Savings (1946-1982).
Box 1,461: Security Section, Statistical Digests (1977-1982).
Box 1,462: Business Division, Maintenance Branch and Business Manager
(1945-1972).
Box 1,463: Security Section Annual Reports, Property Protection Annual Reports,
Contractual Relations Branch, Contract Insurance Branch, Inter-District Relations
Branch (1945-1984).
Box 1,464: Health Education and Health Services Branch (1972-1977).
Box 1,465: Data Control Unit, Management Information Division (1965-1976).
Box 1,466: Instructional Planning Branch/Division, Instructional Services Branch,
Educational Goals (1946-1981).
Box 1,467: Student Auxiliary Services Branch/Division, Educational Communications and
Media Branch, School Defense Activities, Science Center, Radio-TV Section, Library and
Textbook Section, Academic Education (1946-1979).
Box 1,468: Administrative Areas (1) A and (2) B (1971-1977).
Box 1,469: Administrative Areas (3) C and (4) D (1971-1977).
Box 1,470: Administrative Areas (5) E and (6) F (1971-1977).
Box 1,471: Administrative Areas (7) G and (8) H (1971-1977).
Box 1,472: Administrative Areas (9) I, (10) J and (12) L (1971-1977).
Box 1,473: Administrative Areas (11) K, Zone Decentralization and Ad Hoc
Decentralization Office (1970-1977).
Box 1,474: Field Service Centers - East, West, North, South, Administrative Areas
1-10 (1971-1982).
Box 1,475: Organization Charts for the Classified Service (1957-1964).
Box 1,476: Organization Charts for the Classified Service (1965-1976).
Box 1,477: Educational Housing Branch, Personnel Division, Business and Personnel
Services (1946-1986).
Box 1,478: Summer Food Program, Food Services Branch, Operations Branch
(1964-1986).
Box 1,479: Special Education Division, Special Education Site Review and Report
(1976-1983).
Box 1,480: Reorganization-Handler: District Nursing Services, Student Health
Services, Dental Health Services, Student Guidance Services Division, Counseling and
Guidance Services Branch, Mental Health Services, School Traffic and Safety Section
and Health Education and Health Services (1977-1990).
Box 1,481: Student Auxiliary Services Branch, Youth Services Section, Outdoor
Education Office, Mobile Emergency Communication Unit, Pupil Services and Attendance
Branch, Special Services Division, Student Attendance and Adjustment Services
(1968-1990).
Box 1,482: Student Attendance and Adjustment Services, Counseling and Psychological
Services Unit, Office of the Superintendent - County Counsel, Career Education
Services, Instructional Publication, Professional Development, Staff Development/Human
Resources Branch, Data Control Unit, Financial Services Division, Controlling Division
(1951-1992).
Box 1,483: Claims Paying Section, Business Office Branch, Job Accounting Section,
Accounting Section (1951-1986).
Box 1,484: Management Information Division, Information Services Division,
Information Center Branch, Data Processing Operations, Systems and Programming,
Educational Systems Branch, Instructional Technology, Legal Advisor Office, Public
Information (1945-1992).
Box 1,485: Elementary District 1/Region C, Elementary District 3/Region H, Elementary
District 6/Region F, Region/Division A-D, Administrative Services Branch
(1953-1993).
Box 1,486: Real Estate Branch, Maintenance Branch, Stores Branch (1949-1989).
Box 1,487: Research and Evaluation Branch, School Planning Division, Instructional
Services Branch, Purchasing Branch (1953-1990).
Box 1,488: Transportation Branch, School Facilities Services, Building Services
Division, Student Body Finance Section (1969-1995).
Box 1,489: Office of the Superintendent, School Facilities Services, Maintenance
Areas, Operations Branch, Business Division - Food Services (1945-1992).
Box 1,490: Office of the Superintendent, Task Force Office, Legislation and Special
Projects, Board Secretariat, Educational Data Services Center, County Counsel,
Educational Council and Units or Sections Transferred to Other Divisions
(1945-1984).
Box 1,491: Financial Services, Business and Accounting Branch, Personnel Division -
Certificated Branch (1948-1993).
Box 1,492: Budget Division, Elementary District 2, 4, 5 and 7, Administrative Regions
- Superintendents (1951-1992).
Box 1,493: LAUSD Study - Hard to Staff Schools, Personnel Division, Office of Deputy
Superintendent, School Operations, Educational Planning and Research, Policy
Implementation and Evaluation, Special Projects and Reconfiguration, Integration
Planning and Management (1949-1993).
Box 1,494: Adult and Occupational Education, Career and Continuing Education
Division, Facilities Services (1962-1996).
Box 1,495: Division of Educational Services, Child Development Division, Educational
Innovation and Support - Specially Funded Programs, Educational Evaluation and
Compliance Division, Real Estate Branch, Instructional Media and Resources Branch
(1967-1998).
Box 1,496: Instructional Services, Planning and Development Office, Integration Task
Force and Resource Office (1974-1998).
Box 1,497: Administrative Organization, Executive and Administrative Reorganization
(1932-2008).
Box 1,498: Organization Charts, Office of the Superintendent, List of
Superintendents, Innovation Division, School Police, Office of Legislative and
Governmental Relations (1976-2008).
Box 1,499: Office of General Counsel, Office of Communications, Revenue Office,
Volunteer and Tutorial Programs, Partnerships - Adopt-A-School, Human Relations -
Education Commission, Environmental Health and Safety Branch, Personnel Commission
(1942-2008).
Box 1,500-1,505: Personnel Commission, Formation of the Merit System, Minutes
(1936-2009).
Box 1,506: Office of the Inspector General, Executive Officer of the Board, Adult and
Career Education, Educational Services Division, Elementary Instruction, Language
Acquisition and Bilingual Development Branch, Office of Multicultural Education,
Educational Services Division, Senior High School Division, Middle School Unit, Beyond
the Bell Branch, Office of Emergency Services (1973-2005).
Box 1,507: School Police, Security Section, Special Education, Indian Education
Program, Parent/Community Services (1980-2008).
Box 1,508: Human Resources, Student Integration Services, Early Childhood Education
Division, Student Support Services, Program Evaluation and Assessment Branch
(1981-2006).
Box 1,509: Environmental Health and Safety Branch, Human Resources, Personnel
Division, Staff Integration Office, Teacher Integration Unit (1967-2005).
Box 1,510: Facilities Services Division, Maintenance and Operations Branch, Building
Services (1991-2006).
Box 1,511: Facilities Support Services, Technology Division, Office of Instructional
Media (1954-2004).
Box 1,512: Budget Services, Financial Planning, Accounting, Payroll Services
(1960-2007).
Box 1,513: Business Services Division, Food Services Branch, Procurement Services
(1954-2002).
Box 1,514: Purchasing Branch, Contract and Insurance Services Branch, Transportation
Branch (1979-1997).
Box 1,515: Local District Plan, Local Districts 3, 5, 7-8, Local Districts A-K
(2000-2007).
Box 2,071-2,073: Personnel Division, Student Body Finance Branch, Student Activities
Branch, Superintendent Bulletins, Educational Council Proposal, Office of Research and
Development, Health Services Branch, (1945-1974).
Box 2,074: Special Education Branch and Security Section. Security Section materials
include protest correspondence against Board Member Hardy and Burke's recommendation
to eliminate the Security Section, copies of ALERT: A Journal of Facts and Ideas to
Fight for Freedom which includes articles on alleged Un-American activities in the
schools and lists of cited Reds from the 1951-52 hearings and a transcript of Board
Member Burke's comments on the proposed Security Section name change to Property
Protection Section (1945-1974).
box 1,516, folder 2-3
box 1,516, folder 4
box 1,516, folder 5
box 1,516, folder 6-7
box 1,516, folder 8
Parent In-Service Training Program 1972 January 10-1991 January 14
Standing Committee Communications concerning authorizations for Annual Parent
In-Service Training Programs. These programs and inclusion of parental consultation in
the design and and implementation of the District's Compensatory Education Programs
was created by the law and regulations of the Education Consolidation and Improvement
Act of 1981.
box 1,517-1,519
Parent-Teacher Association 1947 April 29-1994 June 6
According to the Board's Administrative Guide, Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) are
considered auxiliaries to the public schools and not "outside groups" of persons.
Materials include reports, correspondence, Board presentations, membership campaign
policies, Bulletins, Yearbooks, Directories, Annual Reports and publications of the
Los Angeles 10th and 31st District, California Congress of Parents and Teachers, Inc.
and copies of the Board's Annual Reports which trace the PTA's historical origins to
the Federation of Child-Study Circles.
box 1,520, folder 1
box 1,520, folder 2
box 1,520, folder 3-6
box 1,521, folder 1-3
Parochial Schools 1949-1977
box 1,521, folder 4
box 1,521, folder 5
box 1,521, folder 6
box 1,521, folder 7
box 1,521, folder 8
box 1,521, folder 9
Penny Kitchens 1912 June 6-1952 April 3
Penny kitchens were established and maintained by The Los Angeles Civic Association
in 1909 to feed needy public school children hot lunches for a penny or less. The
Board took over control of the kitchens in 1914 and in 1918, named them cafeterias.
Materials include correspondence and excerpts from Minutes.
box 1,527, folder 1-2, box 1,522-1,526
Permits 1931 May 6-2003 March 14
Rules and Communications related to the use of school buildings and the Board
granting and refusing permits to organizations under the Civic Center Act.
Materials include the application of the Payroll Guarantee Association to host Gerald
L.K. Smith as a speaker at Polytechnic High School, correspondence concerning the
expulsion of 92 students at Hollenbeck Junior High School who picketed to protest the
Board's granting of this permit, original bound transcripts of remarks made by
Christian Nationalist Gerald L.K. Smith and Phillip M. Connelly at a Board hearing and
Smith's address delivered in the Hollywood High School Auditorium which includes
discussion of Communism, Jewish extremists and segregation of the races. Materials
also include correspondence from Smith and letters of protest against the Board
granting him permits to speak at the public schools.
Correspondence and affidavits concerning the Board's refusal to grant a Civic Center
Permit to the Eastside Defense Committee based on the presence of members on the
speaker list who were on trial for Communism.
Correspondence and newspaper clippings concerning author and foreign correspondent,
Anna Louise Strong's "China: Key to Peace in Asia" speech at a public meeting held at
Verdugo Hills High School.
Statistics on the use of school buildings by organization, number of meetings, hours
and attendance.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) materials concerning ACLU v. Board of Education
of the City of Los Angeles in which the California Supreme Court upheld the
constitutionality of the Board's right to reject an application for use of a school
auditorium where the applicant refused to file a statement of information regarding
proposed use. ACLU correspondence and Board presentations pertaining to segregation
and the refusal to grant Civic Center Permits to subversive Communist
organizations.
Reports on leasing of school property to religious groups and Bible Club meetings on
school premises.
Correspondence and reports pertaining to the use of school buildings by Communist
organizations and the Socialist Labor Party.
box 1,528, folder 1-2, box 1,527, folder 3-5
box 1,687-1,691, box 1,538, folder 1-22, box 1,529-1,537, box 1,528, folder 3-4
Personnel Commission 1944-1999
Personnel Commission Rules, Reports and official signed Minutes. Additional Personnel
Commission Minutes are located in the Organization Subject Files.
Box 1,528: Minutes (1974-1975).
Box 1,529: Minutes (1976-1978).
Box 1,530: Minutes (1979) and (1950-1963).
Box 1,531: Rules (1963-1969).
Box 1,532: Rules (1969-1972) and Minutes (1980-1981).
Box 1,533: Minutes (1982-1986).
Box 1,534: Minutes (1987-1991).
Box 1,535: Minutes (1992-1996).
Box 1,536: Minutes (1997-1999) and Rules (1972-1975).
Box 1,537: Rules (1976-1982).
Box 1,538: Functions of the Personnel Commission and Reports (1963-1995).
Box 1,687: Minutes (1950-1954).
Box 1,688: Minutes (1954-1958).
Box 1,689: Minutes (1944-1950).
Box 1,690: Minutes (1968-1969) and Reports (1953, 1956-1960).
Box 1,691: Minutes (1971-1973).
box 1,538, folder 23
box 1,538, folder 24
box 1,538, folder 25
box 1,538, folder 26
box 1,539-1,541
box 2,075, folder 2
box 2,075, folder 3
box 1,542-1,546
Playgrounds 1930 February 10-2006 August 22
Correspondence and petitions requesting the installation of lighting, additional
hours, space, surfacing and equipment for school playgrounds.
Materials include a transcript of Drew Pearson's broadcast, "Pearson Predicts L.A.
Board of Education Will be Indicted for Manslaughter" concerning two Wilshire Crest
Grade School boys who died after falling from playground swings and injuring their
heads on the asphalt, "Analysis of Pupil Accidents" and "Accident Control Survey"
reports, the Citizens' Advisory Council on Playground Surfacing meeting transcripts,
newspaper clippings and correspondence from a delegation of Wilshire Crest Grade
School parents and legal documentation concerning former Wilshire Crest Principal,
Ione Dresden Swan's playground black top case, Swan et. al. v. Los Angeles City Board
of Education et. al., Superior Court No. 585321.
box 1,547-1,552
Policies 1967 October 26-2009 May 28
Materials include copies of Committee Reports, memoranda and bulletins on District
policies ranging from Criteria for Ethnic Commissions, the Council of Black
Administrators presentation in support of policy implementation for Board policy
supporting Black and Chicano businesses, affirmative action policy, personnel
negotiations, the adoption of a Title IX student grievance procedure, adoption of the
eviction policy and relocation benefits grievance policy, procedures for establishing
a Junior Reserve Officers Training Corp (JROTC) in a Senior High School, adoption of
the Whistleblower Protection Policy, Zero Tolerance Weapons Expulsion Policy,
Prejudice and Discrimination Statement Policy and authorization of policy to withhold
grades, diploma or transcripts of students.
Supporting documentation includes propaganda from Lincoln High School's student
group, STAMP (Students Talk Against Militant Pressure), a Progressive Labor Party
booklet entitled "Los Angeles...WE must rule the Schools!" which documents educational
class and race based educational inequities and includes photos from student unrest in
Spanish speaking and Black area schools and "The East Los Angeles Community" report by
the East Los Angeles Communications Task Force on School-Community Relations.
box 1,554, folder 1-5, box 1,553
Political Matters 1924 August 12-2001 May 18
Correspondence urging the prevention of campus distribution of political publications
such as La Raza, Inside Eastside, Open City, Free Press, the East Los Angeles College
student newspaper, The Black Guard and the Los Angeles Times based on the contribution
of this literature to student unrest.
Materials also include Bulletins on laws and regulations pertaining to political
activities of students and District employees, County Counsel opinion on the student
political clubs, "Ethics in the Teaching Profession" statement from the Research
Bulletin of the National Education Association, a black and white photo of a school
bus with a political campaign sticker affixed to the bumper and a copy of American
Federation of Teachers, Local 1021 Chairman of the Human Relations Committee Claude
Ware's address to the Board concerning the events in Selma, Alabama including a
request to circulate a petition of protest in the schools addressed to United States
President Lyndon B. Johnson.
box 1,554, folder 6
box 1,555, folder 1-2, box 1,554, folder 7-8
box 1,555, folder 3
Press 1972 January 17-1994 September 7
Board Rules concerning Official School Publications and Student Newspapers,
correspondence objecting to the District Guidelines for High School Publications with
enclosure, "Manual for Student Expression: The First Amendment Rights of the High
School Press," correspondence objecting to censorship of student newspapers, two
volumes of University High School student newspaper, "The Red Tide" with articles on
campus police sweeps, censorship of the first issue, the Women's Liberation Movement,
the Los Angeles Black Panthers on trial and Angela Davis.
box 1,555, folder 4
box 1,556-1,557
Priority Housing Program 1985-1990
Priority Housing Program Reports regarding plans and procedures to increase capacity
of schools at all levels, copies of proposals for additional year-round schools,
memoranda on the Capacity Adjustment Program (CAP) for overcrowding relief, Reports to
the Committee of the Whole and Special Committee of the Whole meetings on year-round
education and the need for additional classroom space, plans for overcrowding relief,
"Historical Overview, Operational Data and Summary of the Research on Year-Round
Education" and proposals to reopen closed school sites.
box 1,558, folder 1-4
Priority Staffing Program 1984 July 9-1990 January 16
The Priority Staffing Program (PSP) represents Superintendent Handler's response to
facilitate hiring of teachers for 55 of the District's schools with the greatest
staffing shortages.
Materials include Building Committee Reports concerning site improvements at PSP
Schools, a summary of the PSP's year end reports, a study of the District's "Hard to
Staff Schools" and Committee of the Whole Communications on the District's Priority
Instruction Program.
box 1,559-1,560, box 1,558, folder 5-7, box 1,686, folder 3
box 1,561-1,563
Procedures 1939-2006
Bulletins and Committee Reports concerning District procedures including those for
emergencies, the inspection of public records, juvenile court orders for sealing pupil
records and the destruction of records.
Materials also include a copy of Jackie Goldberg's carried motion directing the
Superintendent to end the practice of providing lists of students' names and addresses
to military recruiters and any other outside groups or individuals.
box 1,564, folder 1
Procurement 2004 March 16
Inter-office correspondence concerning the Board's adoption of the "No Sweat"
Procurement Policy Motion in January 2003 which directed staff to review and revise
its procurement policies to ensure that District contractors and subcontractors do not
employ child or sweatshop labor.
box 1,564, folder 2-3
box 1,565, box 1,564, folder 4-7
box 1,566, folder 2
box 1,566, folder 3
box 1,566, folder 1
box 1,566, folder 4
box 1,566, folder 5
box 1,566, folder 6-51
box 1,567, folder 1-2
box 1,567, folder 3
box 1,567, folder 4
box 2,591, folder 1, box 1,568-1,585, box 1,567, folder 5-8
Publications 1936-2004
Bulk of materials consist of publications created by the District which includes
books, reports, newsletters, booklets, catalogs, magazines, guides, pamphlets,
instructional bulletins, programs, newspapers, news magazines, handbooks, surveys,
plans, annotated bibliographies, course outlines and posters.
Box 1,567: Together We Work: Report of a Conference of Administrative and Supervisory
Staff, School Today: The American Way, Report on Preservice Teacher Education in the
Los Angeles City Schools and Spotlight: A Newsletter on Activities of the Los Angeles
City Schools (1940-1973).
Box 1,568: Spotlight (1953-1977).
Box 1,569: A Statement of Goals: Los Angeles Unified School District, Los Angeles
Junior College Chronicles: Current Literature in Vocational Guidance, Graduation
Requirements and Curricula, Pages of My Mind: Anthology of Senior student writing, The
Superintendent/Board Relationship and Employer/Certificated Employee Relationship
(1942-1969).
Box 1,570: Schooletter from the Los Angeles City Schools, Short Waves (later
Spotlight) newsletter, Communi-ty-cations newsletter and News & Views: A sampling
of news about the Los Angeles school district (1936-1977).
Box 1,571: The Superintendent, The Board and The Press, Principal's P.R. Guide:
Helping to Get Out the Good News, LIFE!!! illustrated Eagle Rock High School student
poetry collection, America, America stories and illustrations by Bungalow 8 fifth
grade class at Glenfeliz Blvd School, Just For Me, Please! and What You See Is Me
poetry and prose by students in Zone B schools (1946-1982).
Box 1,572: Spotlight, Observance of Special Annual Events, A K-12 Guide to
Instructional Activities, In Celebration of Cultural Diversity, Senior High Schools
Division News, Los Angeles School Observer: The School-Community News Magazine
including a special series on integration and Crawford vs. Board of Education, The
Reflector and Publications Procedures Handbooks (1958-2004).
Box 1,573: Point of View: Purposes, Policies, Practices (multiple revisions), Your
Schools: Review of Education in Los Angeles and District Highlights (1959-1998).
Box 1,574: Attitudes and Opinions of Educators The Los Angeles City School System
Survey Report, Charts of Survey Results and Summary of Major Findings by the Science
Research Associates, Inc. (1953).
Box 1,575: The Teaching of Values: An Instructional Guide, Bibliography to Accompany
the Teaching of Values, Elementary School Curriculum: Guidelines for Instruction,
Senior High School Handbook, Catalog of Authorized Subjects: Adult Schools, Catalog of
Authorized Subjects: Junior and Senior High Schools, Supplement to Catalog of
Authorized Subjects: Junior and Senior High Schools, Handbook of Information for
Elementary Teachers and It Worked for Us: Ideas for Creating a Positive Climate for
Learning (1956-1977).
Box 1,576: LAUSD Administrative Area D Special Education Division Comprehensive Plan
for Special Education, Organizing for Tomorrow's Educational Needs: A Survey of
Administration and Supervision Within the Los Angeles City School System, Teaching
Guide in Health Education, Oral Language published by Area F and Area G Preferred
Reading Program Report (1943-1976).
Box 1,577: Reading Management System: Hoover Street School - Area F, Area J Reading
Program Report, Area I School Preferred Reading Program: A Presentation to the
Educational Development Committee, Area F Reading Comprehension Diagnostic Kit, Area F
Self Concept Packet and Learning to Read is Reading: Area A Reading Report to
Educational Development Committee (1970-1976).
Box 1,578: Bibliography of Jewish Literature, World History and Geography
Instructional Guide, Modern Science Instructional Guide for Senior High School,
American Ideas and Institutions: Foundations of Freedom, Superintendent's Conference
Minutes, Sequenced Instructional Programs in Physical Education for the Handicapped,
Aircraft Noise Problems in Los Angeles City Schools, School District Organization in
Los Angeles County and Report to the Board of Education on Textbooks (1936-1976).
Box 1,579: Report to the Board of Education on Elementary Supplementary Books,
Standards for Senior High School Buildings: Example - San Fernando High School,
Standards for Junior High School Buildings: Example - Westchester Junior High School,
Standards for Elementary School Buildings: Example - Castle Heights Elementary School,
Programs and Projects in the Schools, Los Angeles City Schools Meet An Educational
Crisis, Report to the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Los Angeles City Schools
Present Cavalcade of Youth: Building a Better Tomorrow - Hollywood Bowl Program,
Promising Practices for Expanding Educational Opportunities: A Handbook of Current
Effective Programs and Safety Rules for Machine Shop (1950-1976).
Box 1,580: Education and Training for Technical Occupations, Executive Abstracts:
Summary of the Title I Evaluation, A Study of the Needs of Higher Education in Los
Angeles, Adult School Principal's Handbook, Accident Control Survey and Analysis,
Technical Reports: Evaluation of ESEA Title I Programs in Los Angeles,
Composition/Rhetoric Textbooks Grades 10-12 Annotated Bibliography, On the Ball-Point:
Classroom Practices in Teaching Composition, Compose Yourself: A Plan for Instruction
in Written Composition Grades 7-12 and Contemporary Composition: A Course Outline for
Grade 10 or 11 (1947-1976).
Box 1,581: Los Angeles City Schools Review, Handbook for Career and Continuing
Education Personnel, Title I General Education Code Provisions and Title 2 Elementary
and Secondary Education Code Provisions (1947-1978).
Box 1,582: Los Angeles City School Districts Committee on Research Studies Reports
and Certificated Salary Survey (1954-1965).
Box 1,583: Policies Governing Student Body Finance: Elementary Schools, School Tax
Limit Information Program and Annual Report In-Service Education Program
(1964-1976).
Box 1,584: North East West South (NEWS) and NEWS Operating Divisions (1959).
Box 1,585: 1966 Los Angeles Unified School District School Bond Information Program
(1966).
Box 2,591: Nine Council of Black Administrators (C.O.B.A.) antiviolence posters.
Non-District publications include The Ingrams pamphlet about Rosa Lee Ingram,
Instructional Materials to Meet the Needs of Urban Youth, A Trilogy of Political
Reflections, Picking Pockets Electrically: An Authentic Expose of all Telephone
Rackets (Box 1,570), advertisements and correspondence concerning prohibited book, The
American Thesaurus of Slang, Freedom's Need for the Trained Man, How Have Our Schools
Developed? Perspective: A Background for Action, Retail Meat Percentage: Meat Cost and
Sales Accounting, Permit Communist-Conspirators To Be Teachers?, If Called Into
Service pamphlet, Shoreline Development: County of Los Angeles, Aviation Center of the
West, There's Nothing Sentimental About Your Cash Register (1,571), Pizarra:
Suplemento Educativo de La Opinion (1,573), New Education in Japan and Its Problems,
Home and School Work Together for Young Children, Problems Confronting Boards of
Education (1,578), Guidelines for School Planning and Construction: A Handbook for
School Business Officials (1,579), Rules of the Board of Education District of
Columbia, The Review of Politics (1,581), Operation School Burning, Service '65
KABC-TV Los Angeles (1,582) and Americans All: The American Negro, Americans All: Our
Oriental Americans and American Traveler's Guide to Negro History (1,585).
box 1,587, folder 1-2, box 1,586
box 1,587, folder 3-4
box 1,590, folder 1, box 1,588-1,589
Pupil Integration Plan 1977 July 18-1984 May 7
Pupil integration proposals and plans for desegregation of the District under court
order pursuant to the Crawford v. Board of Education lawsuit. Materials also include
the State Controller's final report of examination of the LAUSD for the Court Mandated
Desegregation Program Costs, correspondence concerning the termination of the Crawford
lawsuit and Integration Evaluation Reports: Predominantly Hispanic, Black, Asian and
Other Non-Anglo (PHBAO) Programs.
box 1,591, box 1,590, folder 2-5
box 1,592, folder 1
box 1,592, folder 2
PUSH 1977 August 15-1979 March 19
Reports and Communications concerning the District's implementation of Reverend Jesse
Jackson's People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) for Excellence Program. This program
supports both the educational platform of Jackson's Chicago based organization,
Operation PUSH and the District's school desegregation/integration plans.
box 1,592, folder 3
box 1,592, folder 4
box 1,592, folder 5-10
Questionnaire 1934 May 8-1976 October 11
Copies of various educational questionnaires and related correspondence including
copies of the Board's questionnaire to sit-in participants. This questionnaire asks
civil disobedience participants to state their reasons for participating in sit-in
demonstrations, asks for specific Board actions to solve the problems which led to the
vigils, sit-ins, study-ins and fasts in the halls of the Board of Education
headquarters. Respondent reasons for protest include equal educational opportunities,
the existence of de facto segregation in the Los Angeles City Schools, the "Alameda
Wall" boundary between Jordan and South Gate High Schools, poor conditions in ghetto
schools, discrimination in hiring and placement of minority teachers and the Board's
obligation to meet the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) demands concerning
desegregation and educational justice for all students.
box 1,593-1,621
Race Question 1934-1987
Box 1593-1595: Reports from the Ad Hoc Committee on Educational Opportunity. The Ad
Hoc Committee was appointed shortly after Mary Tinglof was elected President of the
Board of Education on July 1, 1962 and consisted of Arthur F. Gardner, Hugh C. Willett
and Georgiana Hardy as President. This Committee was charged with the evaluation of
Board policies and practices as they relate to educational opportunities for all
students and invited seven community leaders to serve as resources in its
deliberations. These materials also include correspondence for and against segregated
schools, the Statement of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California,
Congress of Racial Equality and National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People on Integration in the Los Angeles City Schools presented to the Board on June
7, 1962, speaker cards and photos that show Alameda school boundary area that would
have to be crossed from South Gate to Jordan High School (1962-1967).
Box 1596: Requests for the appointment of Negro teachers, Personnel Division report
on a study of employment of Negroes in certificated and classified service, thesis
excerpt regarding laws prohibiting and later segregating public school education for
colored and Mongolian children, requests for more colored teachers at Jefferson High
School and for the establishment of war emergency and defense training classes in
Negro and Mexican areas, a copy of George S. Schuyler's "The Phantom American Negro,"
correspondence concerning segregation at Jefferson High School and the Board's refusal
to hire Negro teachers, petitions authorized by the League of Struggle protesting the
Board's refusal to employ Negro secondary school teachers and letters and petitions
requesting the appointment of Senola Maxwell Reeves as a counselor at Jefferson High
School. These protest materials from Jefferson High School include a letter to the
Board from Senola Maxwell Reeves wherein she describes how she was blocked from this
counseling position at Jefferson High School (1934-1960).
Box 1597-1598: Board policies and procedures regarding tolerance, racial
discrimination, segregation and not recording the race of pupils, Supreme Court of the
United States Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka opinion, Resolution on
Inter-Racial Democracy in the Schools, Report of California Supreme Court Case of
Arthur Wysinger by his Guardian, Edmund Wysinger, Appellant v. S.A. Crookshank,
Respondent, correspondence protesting the boundary changes between Jordan and South
Gate High Schools, Minutes concerning police presence and lockdown at Jordan High
School, Inter-office correspondence report on CORE sit-in demonstration, County
Counsel's opinion on de facto school segregation (1934-1965).
Box 1599-1601: Personnel and Schools Committee Report on the emergency closing of
schools during the Watts Riots, press releases on the results of two racial and ethnic
surveys of the LA City Schools mandated by the State Board of Education, Watts
Teachers Pilot Project Report, correspondence and petitions opposing bussing children
out of neighborhood schools, correspondence from Superintendent Crowther regarding the
distribution of pupils by race, propaganda from the National Congress of Parents and
Teachers AGAINST Bussing, First Informative Report on District Integration Policy,
"The Dynamics of a Black Caucus" by Homer A. Jack, Administrator's In Depth Seminars
in Problems of Desegregation as They Relate to Large City Schools (1965-1968).
Box 1602-1605: Voluntary Bussing Program Progress Report, Adult Education Committee
Report on the establishment of the Adult Bilingual Experimental School, Press Releases
on Minority Enrollment and Ethnic Studies, Los Angeles Goals Council Report ont Goals
for Ghettos and Barrios, Mexican American Education Commission programs and
recommendations, list of racially imbalanced schools, correspondence and motions
concerning the Crawford case, recommendations for the Community Ad Hoc Committee on
Integration, Educational Development Committee Report on the East L.A. Dropout
Prevention Project (1968-1977).
Box 1606-1608: Addenda to Progress Report on Development of Planning Efforts for
Staff Integration, Personnel and Schools Committee Report adopting Equal Opportunity
Policy and Affirmative Action Policy for District Personnel, Progress Report on Plans
to Balance Certificated Staff, list of organizations and groups represented on the
Citizens' Advisory Committee on School Integration, Mexican Culture and Heritage
Teacher Guide, Staff Integration Proposal, Reverend Jesse L. Jackson's press statement
on PUSH/WEST Los Angeles and integration in the Los Angeles public schools, Committee
of the Whole Communication on the Superintendent's Staff Unit for Integration, Dr.
Ernest H. Smith and Dr. Ernie A. Smith's Board presentation statements entitled Pupil
Teacher Integration - Is There a Hidden Agenda? and A Case for Bilingual and
Bicultural Education for United States Slave Descendents of African Origin
(1974-1976).
Box 1609-1614: Citizens' Advisory Committee On Student Integration (CASCI) Reports
and Board responses, correspondence and petitions against mandatory bussing, student
letters for and against bussing, Racial and Ethnic Survey, Staff Response to
Guidelines and Directions for the Development of an Integration Plan, School Observer
newsletters with special integration reports, Court Reports on the Crawford
integration hearings, city map showing businesses and building looted, damaged and/or
burned and destroyed and deaths during the Watts Riot, Fiscal Summary of McCone
Commission Recommendations (1965-1977).
Box 1615: School Segregation on Our Doorstep: The Los Angeles Story by John and Laree
Caughey, Segregation Blights Our Schools by John W. Caughey, Violence in the City --
An End or a Beginning?: A Report by the Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots
(McCone Commission), Summary Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil
Disorders, U.S. Riot Commission Report: What Happened? Why Did It Happen? What Can Be
Done?, Schools Are For Going To/Las Escuelas Son Para Ir A booklets, The Negro Family:
The Case for National Action, Headway: A Report by the Economic and Youth
Opportunities Agency of Greater Los Angeles, Community Profiles and Orientation to
Central Los Angeles, East Los Angeles: Nuestra Comunidad, Orientation to South Los
Angeles Communities: Florence, Green Meadows, Watts, The View From Watts: A Series of
Articles Reprinted from the Los Angeles Times, de facto segregation newspaper
clippings (1964-1977).
Box 1616-1617: Approach to a Human Relations Program for Junior and Senior High
Schools, copies of Rumford Act AB 1963 statements to the Board, Office of Urban
Affairs, Urban News newsletters, status memoranda regarding Crawford v. Board of
Education, Petitions from residents of the Watts District to end all forms of
segregation in schools, specifically in the Jordan and South Gate High School
Districts, Crawford v. Board of Education Summons and Complaint, Model Cities
Evaluation Report and curricular materials (1963-1977).
Box 1618-1621: Citizens Compensatory Education Advisory Committee Minutes,
Compensatory Education Reports (1964-1987).
box 1,622, folder 1
Radiation 2000 June 27-2006 June 29
Copy of a motion concerning the effects of non-ionizing radiation and Board Report
regarding the approval of an agreement with the Los Angeles Police Department to
install a wireless antenna on the roof of Jordan High School in conjunction with the
Jordan Downs Public Safety Initiative.
box 1,622, folder 2-10
box 1,623, folder 1
box 1,684-1,685, box 1,623, folder 2-4
box 1,623, folder 5
box 2,076-2,077, box 1,722, folder 3-4, box 1,624-1,625, folder unknown
container
Recreation 1946 February 11-2000 February 16
Reports and Communications regarding recreation services provided by the District,
policies for the use of school facilities for recreation, use of busses for recreation
program, camping program, Recreation and Youth Services Planning Council, Metropolitan
Recreation and Youth Services Council and Bell Community Recreation Program.
Materials also include Recreation Policies and Practices of the Youth Services
Division, In the Next Ten Years . . . Factors Influencing Recreation in Los Angeles
County, Manual on Use of School Facilities, Leisure Time Activities for Girls in Los
Angeles County, Get High On Life: In-Service Training Manual, Our Schools and
Recreation: The Youth Services Program of the Los Angeles City Schools, A Comparative
Analysis of the Guiding Principles of the Youth Services Program of the Los Angeles
City Schools with the Principles Emerging from Recent Recreation Literature and
School-City Cooperation and Coordination of Recreation and Youth Services in Los
Angeles.
box 1,626, folder 1
box 1,626, folder 2
box 1,626, folder 3
box 1,626, folder 4-7
box 1,627, folder 1-2
box 1,627, folder 3
box 1,627, folder 4
box 1,627, folder 5-7
box 1,628, folder 1-3
box 1,628, folder 4
box 1,629, folder 1-3, box 1,628, folder 5-6
box 1,630, folder 1-3, box 1,629, folder 4-5
box 1,630, folder 4
box 1,630, folder 5-9
box 2,078, folder 1-2, box 1,631-1,667
Reports 1880-2008
Materials include reports created by the District, the bulk of which are Controller's
Financial Reports.
On July 1, 1986, the Controller position named changed to Chief Business and
Financial Officer.
Box 1,631-1,647: Annual Reports of the Board to the Los Angeles County Superintendent
of Schools, District Superintendent's Reports to the Board, memos and correspondence
regarding distribution of the Board Reports and Minutes, Calendar of Reports,
Expenditures Classified by Schools, Controller's Semiannual, Annual and Summary of
Monthly Financial Reports (1929-1986).
Box 1,648-1,654: Controller's Monthly Financial Reports, Summaries of Monthly
Financial Reports, Semiannual Reports, Third Quarter Reports and Annual Reports, Chief
Business and Financial Officer's Monthly Financial Reports, Summaries of Monthly
Financial Reports, Semiannual Reports and Third Quarter Reports, District's
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (1978-1989).
Box 1,655-1,660: Controller's Annual Report of Expenditures Classified by Schools,
School Expenditures and Facilities Annual Report, Chief Business and Financial
Officer's Monthly Financial Reports and Semiannual Reports, First, Second and Third
Period Interim Financial Reports, Capsule Reports, Comprehensive Annual Financial
Reports, Child Welfare and Attendance Reports, Health Education and Health Services
Branch Annual Reports, Business Division Annual Reports (1945-1998).
Box 1,661-1,663: Transiency and Stability in the LAUSD Evaluation Reports, Report of
Plans of the 1986 Graduates, Language Development Program for African American
Students: Implementation Evaluation, Survey of Instructional Programs, Integration
Program Reports, Integration Evaluation Reports, Financial Implications of Andersen
Recommendations, National Defense Training Report, Annual Reports of the Board of
Education for 1880-1881, 1895-1896 and 1907-1908, Copy of Board of Education Annual
Report for 1883-1884, District Annual Progress Reports and Superintendent's Annual
Reports (1880-1995).
Box 1,664-1,667: Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports, First, Second and Third
Period Interim Financial Reports (1995-2008).
Box 2,078: Weekly Reports of School Depredations (1946-1953).
box 1,728
Research 1930 February 20-1987 June 29
Materials include Superintendent Bruce A. Findlay's "Cooperative Procedures for
Research Studies," an agreement with the Martin Luther King Legacy Association to
conduct a home education and development program, an Informative Report from the
Personnel Commission on Residence Requirements for Classified Employees and a series
approved by the Committee on Research Studies including "Activities of General
Elementary Supervisors in Cities of Over 200,000," "Objectives of Education for Gifted
Children in California Elementary Schools" and "Public Marking Practices in Los
Angeles City Senior High Schools."
box 1,729, folder 1
Reserve Funds 1986 November 3-1994 November 21
box 1,729, folder 2-8
Reserve Officers' Training Corps 1935 July 18-2000 January 11
The Junior Division of the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (R.O.T.C.) Program
was established under the provisions of the National Defense Act of 1916 as a military
training program to teach students practical skills in subjects such as map reading,
military history, organization of the Army, use of small arms and rifle
marksmanship.
The Board authorized the Program's initial presence at the following high schools:
Belmont, Fairfax, Franklin, Garfield, Hamilton, Hollywood, Lincoln, Los Angeles,
Manual Arts, North Hollywood, Roosevelt, San Pedro, University, Van Nuys and expanded
units at additional secondary school sites.
Materials include Reports concerning inventories of U.S. Government issued equipment
at high school sites with Reserve Officers' Training Corps (R.O.T.C.) programs, bills
for stolen rifles and other lost government property, booklet on the Department of
Army created curriculum and extra-curricular activities such as rifle range practice
by student teams at school site rifle ranges, correspondence regarding incidents of
illegal hazing and initiation carried out by student members of the Franklin High
School ROTC unit and a statement of opposition to school funding for the ROTC by
Esther Lewin of Women Strike for Peace .
box 1,730, folder 1
box 1,731-1,755, box 1,730, folder 2-10
Retirement 1936 November 30-2008 March 25
The Los Angeles City School District Retirement System, the Los Angeles City High
School District Retirement System and the Los Angeles City Junior College District
Retirement System were established as of September 1, 1937.
Materials include District Retirement Election Plans, Procedures, Rules, Regulations,
Proposals and Retirement Board Meeting Minutes as well as records pertaining to the
State Employees' Retirement System.
Box 1,730-1,733: District Retirement Election Plans, Elementary and High School
Retirement Board Consolidation Meeting Minutes, Retirement Handbook of Information,
State Employees' Retirement System, Retired Certificated Transfers to State System,
Teacher Union Retirement Proposals, Retirement Board Election Procedures, Certificated
Retirement Elections (1937-1972).
Box 1,734-1,737: Investment Counsel, Interest Rates, Legal Opinions, Medical Board
Personnel, Membership, State Employees' Retirement System Payments, District
Retirement Board Oath of Office, Termination of Employee Service, List of Retiring
Employees, Congratulations on Promotions, Actuarial Services, Conventions
(1937-1973).
Box 1,738-1,740: Budget, Annual Reports, "District Retirement Act, Other Pertinent
Legal Extracts, Rules and Regulations," Retirement Rules, Disability Rules, Retirement
Age Limit, Insurance Plan Deductions, Legislation, Recommendation Report of Mortality
and Service Tables for Adoption and Rates of Contribution for Certification by the
Board, Contributions, District Retirement Discontinuance (1937-1972).
Box 1,741-1,743: LAUSD and Los Angeles City Junior College District Retirement System
Meeting Minutes, Unified District Retirement Board Minutes (1962-1972).
Box 1,744-1,751: District Retirement Board Election results, Lists of Eligible
Voters, Tally Sheets and State Employees' Retirement System Survivor Benefits Election
materials and lists of employees, Dissolution or Disposition of District Retirement
System Election, Earned Salary Allowance Poll (1945-1966).
Box 1,752-1,755: Retirement System History, District Sponsored Hospital-Medical
Program History, Benefits, Retirement Age Limit, Health and Welfare Coverage for
Retired Board Members, Classified Retirement System and Election, Social Security,
State Teachers Retirement System (STRS) for Certificated Personnel, STRS Bulletin,
California Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) Newsletters, Maxicare Health
Plan, A Review of Domestic Partners Coverage, Investments (1936-2008).
box 1,756, folder 1
box 1,756, folder 2
Rewards 1973-1999
Standing Committee Reports, Board Resolutions and flyers offering rewards for
information leading to the apprehension and conviction of persons who committed crimes
of arson, vandalism, burglary, battery, assault with a deadly weapon, rape or homicide
against students, employees, volunteers or school properties.
box 1,756, folder 3
box 1,756, folder 4
box 1,757-1,765, box 1,756, folder 5-8
Rules (Board) 1935-2004
Materials relate to the Board's adoption and processing of Board Rules and include
proposals, modifications, amendments and revisions to Board Rules and Administrative
Regulations governing the Board and the District.
Box 1,756-1,761: Rules (1935-1975).
Box 1,762: Correspondence between the Board, UTLA and other employee organizations
following the April 13, 1970 to May 13, 1970 teacher strike concerning the adoption,
legality according to the Winton Act and dismissal of proposed Board Rule 3700 which
sought to recognize UTLA as the sole bargaining unit for the District's teachers.
Board Rule 3700 was 53 pages in length, affected every teacher's contract and was
determined illegal by the courts. The Board voted to drop its appeal on November 1,
1971 (1970-1971).
Box 1,763-1,764: Rules including a savings and costs review of proposed Board Rule
1971 which requires the District to make a contribution for each State Teachers'
Retirement System (STRS) member who retires between ages 55 and 60 (1975-2004).
Box 1,765: Board Rule 1276 - Circulation of Petitions, History of Rules and
Regulations, Education Code Sections and State Board of Education Rules and
Regulations for Secondary Schools (1938-1972).
box 1,766, folder 1
Safes 1948 January 28-1962 July 31
Correspondence from Board Secretariat James R. Edwards concerning access to the
vault, Communications on the installation of safes at secondary schools and Law and
Rules Committee Communication authorizing the installation of combination tear gas
protective system and relocking device for safes at the following schools: Venice,
Theodore Roosevelt, Belmont and John Adams Junior High.
box 1,766, folder 2-9, box 1,767-1,769
Safety 1930-2006
Correspondence, Reports and petitions concerning safety concerns on and near school
sites, environmental safety hazards, campus security improvements, school crossings
and safety rules.
Materials also include Handbook of Safety Rules and Regulations From The
Administrative Guide, Report on Safety Conditions at Baldwin Hills Elementary School
which includes school site black and white photographs, Accident Control Survey and
Analysis Report, Toward the Development of a Campus and Community Safety Indicator
System: Understanding Students' Perception of Safety Report and Safe Drinking Water
Program: Lead Level Determination Report.
box 1,770, folder 1-2
Safety and Technology Program 2002 December 10-2004 June 22
box 1,770, folder 3-4
box 1,970, folder 6-8, box 1,771
box 1,772-1,797
Schools 1933-2009
Board of Education Reports and correspondence concerning school personnel, programs,
legislation, proposals, calendars and programs.
Box 1,772-1,774: Accelerated School, Accountability Act, Accreditation, Ad-Hoc
Committee to Coordinate School Development Projects, Administrative Personnel,
Adopt-A-School Program, Adult Education, Age Requirements, Alphabetical List,
Alternative School, Assistance and Intervention, School-Based Administrator
Compensation Study, School-Based Health Clinic, School-Based Pupil Motivation and
Maintenance Program, School-Based Educational Technology Program (1956-2008).
Box 1,775-1,779: The LAUSD Class of 2000: Framework for a Longitudinal Profile
Report, Hard to Staff Schools Vol. II: The Study of the LAUSD, Clusters, Community
Adult Schools, Adult Learning Centers, Community Day Schools, Continuation High
Schools, School Days, School Day History, Dedication Ceremonies, District
Reorganizations, Palos Verdes School District Unification, L.A. City School District
Unification, Educationally Impacted Schools, Elementary, Establishment of New Schools,
Emergency Closures, Facility Program, Green Dot Public Schools, High Priority Schools,
Senior High Schools History (1947-2008).
Box 1,780-1,784: Schools of Choice, High Priority Schools, iDivision Study, School
Improvement, Independent Study Center, Innovation Schools, Junior High School History
including historical index cards for individual schools, Necessary Small High Schools,
Learning Center, Low Performing Schools, Magnet Program, Marking, Middle College High
School Project, Middle Schools, Naming Schools and Buildings - Procedures and
Policies, Proposal packet for name change of Garden Gate High School to Dorothy Vena
Johnson High School in honor of the first Black woman secondary principal includes
Johnson's poetry, photo and biography, LAUSD History of Schools Chronology, National
Student Clearinghouse, Necessary Small High School, Newcomer Center, Nonpublic
Schools, Aguilar v. Felton Supreme Court Decision and Compensatory Education
(1949-2009).
Box 1,785-1,790: Open Enrollment, Opening and Closing of Schools, Operation Stay In
School, Opportunity Elementary and High Schools, Senior High School Options,
Overcrowded Schools, Performance Accountability, Pregnant Minors Programs, School
Presentations, Primary Centers, School Property Policy, Pupil Free Day, Purchase
Orders, Racially Isolated Schools (RIMS), RIMS Initial Response to the Minute Order of
August 21, 1979, Title I Rankings, Resource Center, Schools Within A School Program,
Safety Policy Review Board, School Savings, Small School Initiative (1960-2008).
Box 1,791-1,797: School Sites, Small Learning Communities (SLCs), Special Education,
Summer School, Teacher Training,Temporary Housing, Ten Schools Program (TSP),
School-To-Career Academy, Tri-C Program (Community Centered Classrooms),
Underachieving Schools, Underperforming Schools Program, Urban Impact Schools
(1980-2009).
box 1,798-1,810
Schools - Calendar 1933-2008
Materials pertaining to the Board's research and adoption of various school calendars
including holidays, summer vacation, pupil free days, opening and closing dates.
Box 1,798-1,804: School Calendars, Jewish Holidays, Opening and Closing Dates, Summer
Vacation, Pupil Free Day, Easter Vacation, Christmas Vacation, Summary of School
Calendars, Calendar of Special Days, Weeks and Events, Common Calendars, Community
College Calendar (1933-2008).
Box 1,805-1,809: Policies and Procedures Manual for Multitrack Secondary 90/30 and
Concept 6 Intersession Program, Phase I and II Studies of the Concept 6 Calendar,
Elementary and Secondary Year Round Schools Supplemental Information, Single Track 180
Days School Calendars, Single Track (LEARN) Calendars, Three Track Concept 6
Calendars, Four Track 90/30 Calendars, Unique Calendars, Multitrack Year-Round
Calendars, letters from LACES pupils and community members opposing Year-Round
Schools, Integration Evaluation Reports: Magnets, Permits with Transportation and
Continued Integration and Year-Round Schools Programs, School Year Extensions,
Year-Round School Incentive Program, Presentation Summary on Year-Round Schools and
Common Calendar, All Year Use of School Facilities, 1954 All Year Plan
(1954-2008).
Box 1,810: Memoranda, charts, preliminary reports and correspondence concerning
All-Year Schools. Materials also include The All-Year School Report and a copy of
"School Management: Practical Solutions to School Management Problems" magazine with
articles on 12-month contracts for teachers and Florida's rejection of the four
quarter plan (1934-1958).
box 1,811, folder 1
box 1,811, folder 2
box 1,811, folder 3-6, box 1,812, folder 1-2
box 1,812, folder 3-8, box 1,813
Schools - Defense 1948-1972
Reports, bulletins, memoranda, pamphlets, protest correspondence and posters
regarding the use of school facilities for Civil Defense activities and programs.
Materials include the following booklets: Civil Defense and Disaster Planning for
School Officials, Civil Defense in California Schools, City of Los Angeles Civil
Defense and Disaster Corps, Atomic Energy and You, Interim Civil Defense Instructions
for Schools and Colleges, City of Los Angeles Office of Civil Defense Annual Report
and United States Civil Defense: Civil Defense in Schools.
box 1,814-1,816
box 1,817, folder 1
box 1,817, folder 2-14, box 1,818-1,821
Schools - History 1881-2005
Copies of Annual Reports and Board Minutes, publications, statistics, studies, theses
and notes on the history of the District.
Box 1,817-1,819: Chronology of Los Angeles City Schools, District Birthday, Los
Angeles City School Districts School Registry, La Reina: Los Angeles in Three
Centuries, Bird's Eye View of the Los Angeles City Schools, Los Angeles School
Journals, one sheets on early African American teachers: Senola Maxwell Reeves and Iva
Washington, Metropolitan High School Report, The History of Secondary Education in the
City of Los Angeles, Susan Dorsey's thesis: "History of Schools and Education in Los
Angeles," M.C. Bettinger's "Sketch of the Los Angeles City Schools," copies of Board
Minutes from the City Clerk Office, Elementary School History, Los Angeles High School
History, Racial Characteristics of the Los Angeles School District, Tabulations of
School Population According to Nationalities, 100 Years of Public Education in Los
Angeles, California: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Centennial Anniversary of the Los
Angeles City Schools, copies of Common Council Minutes in English and Spanish
concerning the establishment of a City School District, The City of Los Angeles: The
First 100 Years, Twenty-five Years of Community Service: A History of Los Angeles City
College, Hard to Staff Schools Volume I and II, Copies of Board Minutes pertaining to
Census Marshal's Statistics for pupils (1929-2005).
Box 1,820-1,821: A History of Integration, Genesis of the Board, History of the
Junior High Schools in L.A., copies of Board and Superintendent's Annual Reports,
Educational Accomplishment . . . A Progress Report, copies of Los Angeles School
Journal, Los Angeles 1975: A Forecast, 100 Years of Public Education in Los Angeles: A
Study of the Development of Elementary Education in the City of Los Angeles, The
History of Secondary Education in the City of Los Angeles, copy of Census Marshal
Report and memoranda on historical documents, copies of Board Minutes on Student
Unrest, Alphabetical Lists of Elementary Schools, Shifting of Population Within the
School District, Annual Financial Report, Options for Youth Charter School Proposal,
The Open School: Center for Individualization, petitions for Charter Schools
(1881-1993).
box 1,822, folder 1
box 1,822, folder 2-3
box 1,823-1,824
box 1,825-1,827
box 2,078, folder 3-4, box 1,828-1,830
box 2,667-2,671, box 1,831
Schools - Police 1940 May 2-1988
A Vocational Teacher Education application, Application For Credential Authorizing
Public School Service, and an Application for Character and Identification Clearance
contained personally identifiable information and were shredded to protect the privacy
of the applicants.
Box 1,831: Correspondence from the Board of Police Commissioners concerning uniforms,
titles and badges and a copy of the City Council Resolution requesting that police
department personnel be referred to as "Police Officers" and not "Cops."
Materials also include Board Minutes in which Los Angeles Police Department Chief
Gates describes the ten year undercover program at the schools, protest correspondence
against undercover agents on high school campuses, a copy of an American Civil
Liberties Union presentation, "The Recent Drug Arrests, Due Process and Secret
Police," a copy of a presentation from the Children's Rights Organization protesting
the arrests and investigations of junior and senior high school students as violations
of civil rights, inter-office correspondence on the Los Angeles High School Police
Sweep, copy of a Resolution that the Board endorse a Grant High School forum involving
members of the Los Angeles Police Department and the Black Panther Party, student
unrest newsclipping "School Close At Jefferson" and a copy of an American Federation
of Teachers, Local 1021 address to the Board entitled, "Occupation of Locke High
School by the Police Department."
Box: 2,667: Handwritten Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD) history, Report
of Off-Hour Activity forms, death case procedures, describing jewelry visual handout,
personnel complaints, weekly activity reports, crime scene logs, incident reports,
officer logs, roll-call training records, memos to and from Supervising Officer
Jeffrey E. Burgess, performance evaluations, patrol deployment plan, and school patrol
officer job postings.
Box 2,668: Canine program files, K-9 manual, Disguised Weapons handbook, Information
Bulletins, How To Complete A Juvenile Arrest Report, Supervisor's notebook, and a
Schools, Violence and Youth handbook.
Box 2,669: Southwest Regional Training Center binder, Searching and Handcuffing
Suspects handouts, Firearms Training course outline, Driver Training manual, Firearms
- Explosives manuals, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Citation Guide, Voice
Alerting Radio Detection Alarm (VARDA) manual, California Specialized Training
Institute Street Gangs Seminar report, Spanish for Law Enforcement textbook, Juvenile
Procedures school course outline, crime codes, firearms proposals, Drug Abuse
Resistance Education (DARE) binder, and Peace Officer's Guide To The Implied Consent
Law from Arrest to Suspension and Hearing.
Box 2,670: Arrest Report Forms, Work Schedule Study, Crime Scene Management handouts,
Keys Issued to Patrol Officers forms, Security Section Equipment Checklists, Journal
of California Law Enforcement, California Peace Officers' Association (CPOA) booklet,
Arrest Report Field Book Divider, Hoyt Holster instructions, Los Angeles County
Security Officer and Sheriff patches, and Employee's Reports.
Box 2,671: A "B.A.R.F.ER'S" Creed, Canine Operations procedures, LASPD Arson
Checklist, Patrol Guidelines, and weekly activity reports.
box 1,832-1,837
Schools - Requests For 1944-1979
Applications for real estate purchase, correspondence, maps, petitions, reports and
sketches concerning the District's building program and needs for school facilities.
Boxes are arranged alphabetically by school name.
Box 1,832: A-G (1947-1958).
Box 1,833: H-PAC (1944-1958).
Box 1,834: PAL-W (1946-1961).
Box 1,835: Annandale and Birmingham (1952-1979).
Box 1,836: A-P (1945-1967).
Box 1,837: S-W (1946-1959).
box 1,838-1,843
Schools - Sites 1933-1987
Correspondence, petitions, policies, procedures and provisions concerning selections
of school sites, fire inspections, building and land Rules and Regulations, the
Pacific Palisades High School site, James J. McBride School for the Handicapped,
Birmingham High School, Rinaldi Street school site and various other school sites.
box 1,844-1,848
box 1,849-1,852
box 1,853
box 1,854, folder 1
box 1,854, folder 2-3
Seats 2003-2005
Communications concerning provision of seats for high school students and a
Facilities Division Proposal for seat allocations which comply with the Williams
Settlement Implementation Agreement. The Williams Settlement refers to the agreement
in Williams v. State of California in which the District was an intervenor and
co-defendant. These terms involve addressing numerous educational inequities
including: instructional materials, uniform complaint process, school facilities,
teacher training and credentials, and the Concept-6 three-track, year-round
calendar.
box 1,854, folder 4-7, box 1,855-1,862
Secretarial Division (Board Secretariat) 1932-2009
Correspondence and reports concerning the functions, activities and procedures of the
Secretarial Division, the Executive Officer of the Board and the various Board
Secretariat Units including: Assembly, File, Office, Rule, Sergeant at Arms and
Minutes.
The Executive Officer of the Board's former title was Clerk of the Board of
Education. The Executive Officer of the Board of Education is a District employee, not
a member of the Governing Board.
Materials include financial data, informal Committee of the Whole meeting notes,
lists of employees, organization charts, photos of former Clerks of the Board,
studies, a 1984 "Spotlight" profile on Dr. Helen Patricia Reid, the first woman to
hold the Clerk of the Board position as a permanent assignment, copy of the Committee
of Whole Report which changed the name of "Office of Administrative Services of the
Board" to "Office of Board Services," reports related to records management and the
destruction of records, a study of file room activities, Board Report Minutes and
indexing procedures, research requests for file room records, county counsel opinions,
inventory of records stored in the tunnel vaults and records pertaining to microfilmed
Board Minutes and wire recordings.
box 1,863, folder 1
box 1,863, folder 2
box 1,863, folder 3
box 1,863, folder 4
box 1,863, folder 5
box 1,863, folder 6
box 1,863, folder 7-10
box 1,863, folder 11
box 1,863, folder 12
box 1,864, folder 1
box 1,864, folder 2
box 1,864, folder 3
box 1,864, folder 4
Short Term Improvement Program 2002 April 9-2002 April 23
Communication from the Office of the Superintendent recommending implementation of
the Short Term Improvement Plan as part of the Integrated Student Information Systems
Project (ISIS). The ISIS project was mandated in the Chanda Smith Consent Decree plans
in order to replace "at risk" technology and enhance data delivery to school level
decision makers.
box 1,864, folder 5
box 1,865
box 1,866, folder 1
box 1,866, folder 2
box 1,866, folder 3
box 1,866, folder 4-7
Skills Centers 1978 December 11-2007 October 23
box 1,866, folder 8
box 1,866, folder 9
box 1,866, folder 10
box 1,866, folder 11
Southern California Superintendent's Research Council 1978 February 14-1981 March 16
box 1,866, folder 12-13
Spastics 1949-1950
Inter-office correspondence concerning the Valley League for Spastic Children,
petitions of support from San Fernando Valley parents for the Saticoy school for
crippled and delicate children, later named Dr. Charles LeRoy Lowman School and
Educational Housing Section Communication naming the San Pedro elementary school for
handicapped children, the Harlan Shoemaker School.
box 1,866, folder 14
box 1,871, folder 1-4, box 1,867-1,870
Special Education 1976 November 8-2007 September 11
Authorizations for agreements, legislative proposals, approvals of class
descriptions, annual budget plans, eligibility and placement guidelines for Special
Education programs.
Materials include "We Serve the Exceptional Child: Schools, Classes, Programs, and
Services for Children with Special Physical and Educational Needs" publication,
Division of Special Education Superintendent's Annual Reports to the Board, Special
Education Bilingual Master Plan Implementation Report and Special Education Student
Placement in the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE): Studies of Current and Potential
Practices.
Additional materials pertain to the Chanda Smith Consent Decree which was ordered by
Judge Laughlin Waters on April 15, 1996 as the result of a negotiated settlement to
the Chanda Smith v. Los Angeles Unified School District class action lawsuit. In
November of 1993 this class action lawsuit was filed against the District on behalf of
students with disabilities who alleged that the District failed to serve their
educational needs in violation of federal law. The Consent Decree Administrators found
that the District was systematically out of compliance with the Individuals with
Disabilities Act (IDEA).
The Chanda Smith Consent Decree records include the following: Individualized
Education Program Implementation Plan and Budget Report from the Consent Decree
Administrators, Elimination of Hostile Environments, Coordinated Implementation Plan
for Students With Disabilities No. 13: Busing and Transportation, a copy of the new
LAUSD Mission Statement, Louis S. Barber and Mary Margaret Kerr's Consultants' Report
and a copy of the Consent Decree proposal.
box 1,871, folder 5
box 1,871, folder 6
box 1,871, folder 7
box 1,871, folder 8-9
box 1,872-1,873
Specific Drives 1942-1975
Correspondence and Committee Communications concerning the District's involvement in
fundraising campaigns and charity drives. Materials include Board policy on drives and
inter-office correspondence entitled "History of Fund-Raising and Other Collections in
Los Angeles City Schools."
box 1,874, folder 1
box 1,874, folder 2
box 1,874, folder 3
box 1,874, folder 4-8
Spotlight 1982-1999
Copies of Spotlight, an employee newsletter published weekly by the LAUSD Internal
Communications Unit.
Copies of this publication show up as supporting documentation for numerous subject
files and may also be accessed in bulk within the Publications subject files.
See Publications Box 1,568: Spotlight (1953-1977).
box 1,875, folder 1
box 1,875, folder 2
box 1,875, folder 3-6, box 1,876
box 1,877, folder 1-4
box 1,877, folder 5
box 1,877, folder 6-7
box 1,877, folder 8-9, box 1,878-1,882
State Aid 1966 November 11-2006 June 13
Committee Reports concerning state aid applications and agreements for educational
programs and projects, correspondence urging the Board to secure state funds for the
District and copies of applications.
Box 1,877: (1966-1968).
Box 1,878: (1969-1971).
Box 1,879: (1971-1976).
Box 1,880: (1976-1984).
Box 1,881: (1985-1990).
Box 1,882: (1990-2006).
box 1,883-1,886
Statistics 1932-1996
Annual Statistical Reports of the LAUSD, Tabulations of Schools and Grades Showing
Schools According to Classification and Enrollment and Enrollment by Grades,
Expenditures Classified by Schools, Enrollment Statistics including Private and
Parochial Schools, School Sites Located Outside the Limits of Los Angeles City but
Within Los Angeles City School District list and Financial, Statistical and Personnel
Data booklets.
box 1,887, folder 1
box 1,887, folder 2
box 1,887, folder 3-7, box 1,888
box 1,889, folder 1-2
box 1,889, folder 3
box 1,889, folder 4
box 1,889, folder 5
box 1,890-1,893, box 1,889, folder 6-7
Student Body 1936-2009
Materials concerning the activities of the LAUSD student body organizations.
Box 1,889: Student Body Finance Branch Bulletins, Policies Guiding Student Body
Finance publications (1936-1964).
Box 1,890: County Counsel opinion on student grooming standards, dress code
correspondence, Outline for Student Human Relations Workshop, Bulletin on the
destruction of student records, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
statement on academic freedom, press release announcing student body presidents'
presentation of a "Student Bill of Rights" to the Board (1965-1970).
Box 1,891: Board Rules for Student Body Activities, Social Security Number
Memorandum, newspaper articles on the censorship of student journalism, Student Rights
and Responsibilities Handbook, Policies and Programs for Pregnant Students Bulletin,
Policies and Accounting Procedures for Student Body Funds, Student Board Member
transcripts of Student Concerns presented at Board Meetings (1957-2009).
Box 1,892: Districtwide Association of Student Councils bylaws, constitution,
advisory votes, Student Board Members and Student Life Committee Report on Student
In-Service for Student Integration Plan.
City-Wide Student Affairs Council material pertaining to expulsion and suspension
guidelines and procedures, lists of representatives and Board Rule on Official School
Publications.
California Association of Student Councils materials include Leadership Training
Seminar programs, constitution, correspondence and letters (1968-1992).
Box 1,893: Committee Reports concerning the Student Auxiliary Services Trust Fund,
Minutes from Student Conferences, City-Wide Student Affairs Council Program and Annual
Report, Board Rules pertaining to Use of Bulletin Boards, Official School
Publications, Student Newspapers, Student Expression on Campus and Search of Lockers
and Students. Materials include Reports on the East Los Angeles Community, Student
Walkouts: Requests and Demands, Action Outline for Walkout Demands and Requests and
Staff Response to Student Demands and Requests (1968-1992).
box 1,894, folder 1
box 1,894, folder 2
box 1,894, folder 3
Student Exchange Program 1981 November 2-1994 July 13
box 1,894, folder 4
box 1,894, folder 5
box 1,894, folder 6
box 1,894, folder 7
Student Health Services Support Fund 1990 March 5-2006 May 10
box 1,894, folder 8
box 1,894, folder 9-10, box 1,895
Student Integration 1977 February 22-1995 June 5
School Handbook for Student Integration, Preliminary Response of Staff to Guidelines
and Directions for the Development of a Proposed Plan for the Integration of Students,
Student Integration Plan Proposals, Board Communications pertaining to the Integration
Program Budget and news articles concerning the Crawford desegregation lawsuit and
U.S. District Judge A. Wallace Tashima's refusal to dismiss the case.
box 1,896, folder 1
box 1,896, folder 2
box 1,896, folder 3
Student Representatives to the Board of Education 1969 April 24-1981 October 26
box 1,896, folder 4
Student Rights and Responsibilities 1996-2006
box 1,896, folder 5
Student Substitutes - Clerical/Custodial 1982 January 11-1982 August 26
box 1,896, folder 6
box 1,896, folder 7
box 1,896, folder 8-9, box 1,897
box 1,898-1,901
Student Unrest 1968 March 7-2008 March 9
Bulk of materials pertain to the 1968 East Los Angeles Blowouts or Walkouts for
educational equity at Lincoln, Wilson, Garfield and Roosevelt High Schools and staff
responses to student demands and requests.
Box 1,898: Correspondence from Roosevelt High School teachers and staff urging the
Board to find solutions to the conditions that prompted student unrest on campus,
supporting the rights of students to peacefully demonstrate and opposing police
suppression of demonstrations.
Garfield High School Newsletter concerning the "English-speaking oriented" school
system's indifference to Mexican-American students with the attached leaflet: Notice
to Students and Parents About SWATS in Our Schools which provides Board Rules and
California Education Code concerning Corporal Punishment and lists Reverend Vahac
Mardirosian as a contact.
Correspondence and statements from Garfield and Lincoln High School staff and
faculty, Roosevelt High School student petitions in support of faculty, Board member
Julian Nava and Georgiana Hardy's responses to student demands, signed Request to
Address the Board speaker cards for Sal Castro, Blow-out Committee advisor, members of
the Educational Issues Coordinating Committee, staff and students and a transcript of
the Broadway-Central Coordinating Council's presentation to the Board regarding the
student and faculty unrest at Jefferson High School which led to the school's
emergency closure.
Box 1,899: Educational Issues Coordinating Committee demonstration flyers,
correspondence concerning open campuses, free press, elimination of grade requirements
for student body offices and elimination of police on school grounds, Bibliography of
Books in Spanish compiled from secondary library titles, We Must Rule the School and
Students and Revolution pamphlets and copies of Underground newspapers "Inside
Eastside" and "Open City" with Contributing Editor Charles Bukowski.
Final Report from Task Force Assigned to East Los Angeles, District publications on
mental tests and scholastic achievement, Intelligence and Intelligence Testing Report,
California State Testing Program Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Tests and Ability
Measurement of Pupils Who Are Members of Racial or Ethnic Minorities Report from the
District's Measurement and Evaluation Section.
Correspondence concerning the Board's removal of Blow-out advisor, Sal Castro from
his Lincoln High School classroom, Interim Report of Board's Action on Demands and
Requests of Student Walkouts, list of persons arrested on October 2, 1968 and
annotated copies of Citizen's News editorial "Kick Out Riot Breeders."
Box 1,900: Chronology of student demonstrations at Hamilton High School,
correspondence in support of the Board's reinstatement of Lincoln High School teacher
Sal Castro, John C. Fremont High School faculty petitions concerning student
uprisings, list of racist Fremont High School teachers and administrators distributed
to mail boxes, Emergency Closure of Fremont High School Board Communication and a list
of the Los Angeles Southwest College's Black Student Union demands.
Correspondence concerning overnight sit-ins at the Board of Education Administration
Offices and expressing opposition to racism, Inter-Office Correspondence regarding
extra costs attendant to Board Chambers sit-ins, copy of Board motion for the
reinstatement of Lincoln High School teacher Sal Castro and Los Angeles . . . We Must
Rule the Schools pamphlet on the educational inequities within the L.A. School
District.
Press Release for District's adoption of "Get Tough" policy against student
disruptions, Student Unrest Memoranda and Progress Reports, Inter-Office
Correspondence on Concerns of Some Carver Junior High School Teachers, Business
Division's Recap of School Damages, partial copy of a Jefferson High School teacher's
diary documenting student unrest, petitions supporting Southwest Junior College
students and their demands for a Black Studies Department and curriculum relevant to
the Black community.
Box 1,901: Lists of Student Unrest Board meetings and Staff Responses to Student
Demands and Requests, copy of Policy of the Los Angeles Police Department Regarding
Regulation of Conduct at School Campuses, Considerations for Board Meeting with
College Negotiating Council, American Civil Liberties Union pamphlet, Academic Freedom
in the Secondary Schools, correspondence and petitions concerning the Huntington Park
High School walkout and the LAPD arrests of over 100 Mexican Americans demonstrating
for a better education and the restoration of order on campuses.
Copy of "A Curriculum for Mexican-American High School Students" created by Lincoln
High School Advisory Council and Parents Group, copy of Woodland Hills Chamber of
Commerce Resolution regarding a student rally at William Howard Taft High School,
Summary of Student Unrest Events at Jefferson High School on September 23, 1969
including incident reports, Inter-Office Correspondence on Conditions at Manual Arts
and Jefferson High School, San Fernando High School Faculty Association correspondence
and resolution for campus closure due to student unrest and racial tensions and a copy
of Los Angeles Times Article, "Thousands Honor '68 Walkouts by Mexican American
Students: Thousands Gather in L.A. to Commemorate the Blowouts that Helped Launch the
Chicano Movement."
box 1,902
box 1,903
box 1,904, folder 1
box 1,904, folder 2
box 1,904, folder 3
Summer Workshop 1939-1941
box 1,905-1,912
Summons and Complaints 1963-2009
Reports of Correspondence and copies of Summons and Complaints served on the Board of
Education and the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Box 1,905: Includes a substitution sheet for the August 5, 1963 Summons and Complaint
from 6 attorneys v. Board to correct racial imbalance at Jordan High School which
indicates the documents were moved to Race Question subject files under Jordan High
School. See also: Crawford Case subject files (1963-1975).
Box 1,906: (1963-1978).
Box 1,907: (1978-1981).
Box 1,908: (1978-1983).
Box 1,909: (1979-1985).
Box 1,910: (1984-1987).
Box 1,911: (1987-2009).
Box 1,912: (2005-2009).
box 1,913-1,949
Superintendents 1930-2009
Biographical sketches, correspondence, photos, resumes, salary schedules, transcripts
of speeches, educational philosophies, signed employment contracts and community
correspondence concerning appointments of Superintendents and Acting Superintendents
including Assistant, Deputy, Associate, Area, Associate Deputy and Zone
Superintendents.
The Superintendent of Schools is appointed by the Board for a four-year term and
serves as the chief executive officer of the Board and the school system. Joseph
Lancaster Brent served as the Board's first Chairman and Superintendent in 1853. The
following year, Los Angeles Mayor Stephen C. Foster was the first specifically
appointed Superintendent and served from 1854-1855. Mrs. C.B. Jones served as the
first female Superintendent from 1880-1881 and Susan M. Dorsey served as the second
female Superintendent from 1920-1929. Since the end of Dorsey's term, no women have
been appointed as the LAUSD Chief Superintendent.
Box 1,913-1,915: Superintendents Claude Lamar Reeves, Frank A. Bouelle, Vierling
Kersey, Alexander J. Stoddard and Jack P. Crowther (1932-1980).
These materials include a transcript of a Division Heads meeting with President Toll
and Mr. Elliott concerning the Board's critique of Superintendent Kersey and refusal
to renew his contract, Citizens Schools Committee correspondence of protest against
the dismissal of Principal Ione Swan from the Wilshire Crest School for criticizing
the Board and charges that Superintendent Stoddard's service as Superintendent of
Philadelphia public schools included support of "automatic or mass promotion on age"
and correspondence requesting access to the Board's "unofficial" or executive session
Minutes (1932-2005).
Box 1,916-1,918: Superintendents - Robert Ellis Kelly, Ellis Adams Jarvis and Claude
L. Reeves (1931-1970).
Chief Assistant Superintendent Louis B. Travers, Chief Deputy Superintendent Willard
S. Ford, Deputy Superintendent Vincent Paul Maher, Deputy Superintendent Arthur L.
Gould and Deputy Superintendent Emeritus John B. Monlux, (1931-1976).
Box 1,919-1,920: Superintendent search letters sent to State Superintendents and
College Presidents from Board President H.C. Willett, Minutes from the Special
Committee for the Selection of a Superintendent, list of Superintendent candidates
with personal comments including President Willett's list of eliminated candidates on
account of age and out of state, support correspondence for candidate Claude L.
Reeves, copies of Board Minutes concerning new Superintendent selection and Desirable
Characteristics and Qualifications for the Superintendency of the Los Angeles City
Schools list (1948-1954).
Box 1,921-1,922: Louise Wood Seyler, Assistant Superintendent, Central Elementary
District and later, Deputy Superintendent, Instruction and J. Graham Sullivan, Deputy
Superintendent, Instructional Services (1947-1998).
Box 1,923-1,924: Assistant Superintendents - Elizabeth Bates, Katharine Lee Carey who
taught Ralph Bunche at Jefferson High School, Warren Cross Conrad, Luke Lundquist
Gallup, Robert Hill Lane, Charles Barclay Moore, Helen S. Watson Pierce, Burt Warren
Reed, William L. Richer, Harry M. Shafer, Jessie Amelia Tritt, Paul Edward Webb,
Frances Grinnell, Dorothy Van Noy Harsin, Gertrude W. Peddie, Elizabeth Sands, John
Leslie Abbott, Edith M. Clark, Grace M. Mogle Dreier, Edward Manfred Evans, John G.
Fox (1931-1972).
Box 1,925-1,926: Associate Superintendents - Maurice G. Blair, Howard A. Campion,
Bruce A. Findlay, Harry Morganroth Howell, Guy Marsh Hoyt, Montgomery G. Millage, Myra
E. Banta Nelson, Raymond E. Pollich, Paul Francis Shafer, Otto Earl Buss, Stuart
Stengel (1933-2000).
Box 1,927-1,929: Assistant Superintendents - Louise Braas Pierce, Otto Earl Buss, Sam
Hamerman, John Lombardi, Lowell M. McGinnis, Walter Thomas Coultas, Everett Barker
Chaffee, Roy L. Arnheim, Frederick G. Fox, Kenneth Nathan Knight, Donald J. Kincaid,
Leonard C. Pacheco, Dave Schwartz, Allen A. Sebastian, Earnestyne W. Mannatt, Isaac H.
McClelland, Gilbert S. Moore, Frank M. Hodgson, Herbert Milton Cadwell, Jack R.
McClellan, Joseph Richard Smith (1945-1988).
Box 1,930: Associate Superintendents - William B. Brown, Dwight Edmond Lyons, Robert
Jerome Purdy, Myra E. Banta Nelson, Virgil Volla (1949-1973).
Box 1,931-1,932: Deputy Superintendents - Everett Barker Chaffee, Arthur George
Andresen, Schuyler C. Joyner, Stanley T. Warburton (1956-1972).
Box 1,933: Associate Deputy Superintendents - Ralph Walter Lanz and Robert J. Purdy,
Area Superintendents - Robert W. Lamson and Thomas Edward Reece (1955-2003).
Box 1,934: Superintendents - William J. Johnston, Harry Handler and Leonard M.
Britton (1966-2005).
Box 1,935: Associate Superintendents - Josie G. Bain, Associate Deputy Wilson Kline
Jordan, James B. Taylor, John Leon, Jerry F. Halverson, Paul M. Possemato, Lorna L.
Round (1968-2005).
Box 1,936-1,937: Assistant Superintendents - Thomas O. Lawson, Ernest P. Willenberg,
Abram Friedman, Robert A.M. Duron, Pat E. Turner, Alfonso B. Perez, Robert R. Rangel,
Raoul J. Freeman, Richard H. Lawrence, William J. Sharp, Phillip B. Jordan, Robert W.
Rupert, William L. Lucas, Owen L. Knox, Shizuko Akasaki, Richard A. Ragus, Ramiro
Garcia, Tony E. Rivas, Rosalyn S. Heyman, Marc Robert, Beverly J. Martin, Alfred S.
Moore, Norman H. Rossell, Mildred P. Naslund, Joseph P. Linscomb, John J. Lingel,
Kathryn S. Lee, Othella E. Daniels (1965-1998).
Box 1,938: Area Superintendents - Frank Armendariz, Richard T. Cooper, Warren L.
Juhnke, Sidney Brickman, Frederick J. Dumas, Eugenia D. Scott and Norman Schachter.
Special Education Administrator Alfred A. Casler and Director of School Building
Planning Theopolis D. Kimbrough (1969-1989).
Box 1,939: General files include the following: Assistant, Associate, Deputy and Zone
Superintendents (1936-1998).
Box 1,940-1,942: Deputy Superintendents - Francis Nakano and Dan Austin
(1989-2000).
Box 1,943: Assistant Superintendents - Patricia Marshall, Santiago Jackson, Shirley
C. Woo, Renee Jackson, Manuel Ponce, Daniel M. Isaacs, James Figueroa, Richard
Vladovic, Robert Barner, Carmen Schroeder, Evangelina Stockwell, Sara Coughlin, Maria
Casillas, Andrew A. Cazares, Gabriel Cortina, Jessie G. Franco, John Liechty, Eugene
F. McAdoo, John Nagata, Phillip T. Callison, Amelia McKenna, Robert L. Martin and
Pauline S. Hopper. Materials also include Board Reports concerning the approval of
Superintendents' contracts (1980-2000).
Box 1,944: Chief Administrative Officers David Koch and Hugh Jones, Associate
Superintendent Ronald Prescott, Assistant Superintendent Barbara Smith, Consultant to
the Superintendent John B. Mockler, Assistant to the Superintendent - Policy
Implementation, Special Counsel to the Superintendent Richard K. Mason, Senior Deputy
Superintendent Maria Guiterrez and Associate Superintendent Theodore Alexander
(1980-2004).
Box 1,945-1,949: Superintendents - William R. Anton, David L. Brewer III, Ramon C.
Cortines, Leonard M. Britton, Frank A. Bouelle, Jack P. Crowther, Susan Miller Dorsey,
Harry Handler, Ellis Jarvis, William J. Johnston, Robert Ellis Kelly, Vierling Kersey,
Claude L. Reeves, Alexander J. Stoddard, Roy Romer, Sidney A. Thompson and Ruben
Zacarias (1930-2009).
box 1,950, folder 1
Supplemental Educational Services Providers Contracts 1981 March 2-2007 June 28
Educational Services Division proposals that the Board authorize the Superintendent
to execute Supplemental Educational Service contracts. A Supplemental Educational
Service provider must be approved by the State and can be a non-profit, for profit,
faith-based, community-based organization or a school district.
box 1,950, folder 2-6, box 1,951, folder 1-5
box 1,951, folder 6
box 2,075, folder 4, box 1,952-1,965
Surveys 1913-2005
School system surveys, studies and reports authorized by the Board for the purpose of
District examination, analysis and improved operations. Surveys include analysis with
recommendations and plans of action for change.
Materials include the following areas of study: Administrative Organization,
Teachers' Salaries, School Problems, Business Department, Financial, Educators
Opinion, Employee Attitude, Historic Resources, language census of
limited-English-proficient (LEP) students and Racial and Ethnic.
Box 1,955-1,957: Educators Opinion Inventory. The Summary of the Educators Opinion
Inventory found that the lowest favorable response to any category was made to
statements on relations with Board members. Seventy-five percent of educator
respondents expressed a lack of confidence in the Board.
Box 1,960: Language Census of LEP Students.
Box 1,962-1965: Racial and Ethnic Inventories and Survey Reports (1966-2002).
Box 2,075: Housing Authority of Los Angeles correspondence, map, list of general
tables, dwelling schedule and low income housing survey for a W.P.A. project
(1939-1940).
box 1,966-1,968
box 1,970, folder 1-5, box 1,969
Task Force 1989-2000
District Task Force Reports including the following: Behavior Intervention,
Accountability for Student Achievement, AIDS, Elementary Grades and the Board's
Independent Analysis Unit's "An Analysis of LAUSD General Fund Income and Estimates of
Allocation of These Funds to K-12 Services" response to questions from Gray Davis on
behalf of the Governor's Task Force.
box 1,971-1,982
Taxes 1932-2008
Receipts, booklets, correspondence and Resolutions related to gasoline and lawsuit
tax refunds, State Income Tax, Admissions Tax, College Tax Election, School Tax Rate
Limit Elections, Board of Education, et al., v. Philip E. Watson, Assessor of Los
Angeles County Petition for Hearing, public school financing, Tax Payers' Guides, Tax
Rates by Code Areas, Tax Facts, Tax Deeds, Tax Rate Increase Elections, Medicare,
Social Security, Tax and Revenue Association Notes (TRANs), property taxes, sales
taxes, Tax Shelter Annuity Program, Federal Income Tax and State Disability
Insurance.
Informative communications and propaganda concerning Proposition 9 - the Watson "Tax
Trap" Initiative, Proposition 1, Proposition 14 - the Watson Amendment, Proposition 9
or Jaws II and Proposition 13 - the Jarvis-Gann Initiative.
Materials also include fiscal reviews and reports, including an Environmental Impact
Report for the Hollywood Redevelopment Project.
box 1,983, folder 1
Teacher Center 1981 March 9-1984 February 21
Press release and Educational Development Committee Communications concerning the
establishment of a Teacher Center under provisions of the Higher Education Act. The
program statute defines this site as place where public and nonpublic school teachers
and consultants may develop and produce curricula, utilize research findings, and
provide training for the professional development of teachers.
box 1,983, folder 2
Teacher Quality Strategic Plan 2002-2003
Board of Education Report from the Human Resources Division concerning strengthening
teacher quality while also meeting the requirements of the No Child Left Behind
Elementary and Secondary Education Act and a copy of "Making LAUSD the District of
First Resort: A Teacher Quality Strategic Plan."
box 1,983, folder 3
box 1,983, folder 4-10
box 1,984, folder 1-7
box 1,984, folder 8
box 1,989, folder 1-13, box 1,985-1,988
Television 1948-1991
Committee Reports and Progress Reports concerning closed circuit instructional
television programs in the colleges, District produced programming for KLCS-TV
(Channel 58), use of KCET-TV (Channel 28) for educational programs, Board discussions
on elementary and secondary T.V. lessons, American Federation of Teachers letter
opposing educational television as second-class education, copies of FCC Regulations
and policies for California's use of television channels for educational programs.
Materials also include the following publications: An Experiment in Instructional TV
in the Los Angeles Junior Colleges, An Evaluation of Closed Circuit Television for
Teaching Junior College Courses, Chicago Schools Journal with article, "TV Teaching
Evaluated," The Governor's Conference on Educational Television, Coca Cola's "Pause
Prints" with cover feature on the District's "Spotlight on Youth" program, Rules and
Regulations Governing the Employment of Minors in the Production of Motion Pictures,
KLCS-TV: A Convergence of Technologies Catalog of Instructional Television Programs,
KLCS-TV: The Education Station for All Generations historical report, educational T.V.
directories, KLCS Television Broadcast Schedules and An Evaluation of the Guidepost
Telecasts of the Los Angeles City Schools.
box 1,989, folder 14
Temporary Personnel Account Program 1981-1990
Business Operations Committee Reports concerning the establishment and use of the
Temporary Personnel Account for any short-term personnel purpose, including:
professional experts, relief, overtime, staff training allowances, community
representatives and day-to-day substitutes for non-illness purposes.
box 1,989, folder 15
Terrorism 2003 March-2003 May 21
Inter-office correspondence which includes a Fact Sheet on Chemical Terrorism and
District Office of Environmental Health & Safety Bulletins concerning Homeland
Security Advisory System Recommendations and response procedures to serious incidents
and elevated terrorism threat levels.
box 1,990-1,991
Testing 1979-2006
Materials include Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) results, Scholastic
Aptitude (SAT) scores, American College Testing (ACT) results, Bulletins on school
responsibilities for handling test results and testing guidelines, proposals for
testing Limited English Proficient (LEP) students, What Do Test Scores Really Mean?
publication, Superintendent Britton's letter addressing CAP testing program score
discrepancies, Handbooks of Testing Programs in the LAUSD, Student Guidance Services
Memorandum on the California High School Proficiency Examination (CHSPE), Test-Taking
Procedures and Techniques for Elementary Schools Memorandum, Comprehensive Tests of
Basic Skills (CTBS) Report and Norm Referenced Test Results, Preliminary Scholastic
Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) Examination
Procedures Memorandum, Report on the District Testing Programs, CTSBS Form U Matched
Scores by Language Classification Reports publications and Aprenda Scores for LEP
Students by Master Plan Bilingual Program Models and by Category of Staff
publication.
box 1,992-1,998
Textbooks 1925-2008
District and State lists of authorized textbooks and critical correspondence
concerning these titles. Policies and reports regarding obsolete, damaged and lost
textbooks, California State Textbook Requisitions, textbook surveys and studies.
Box 1,993 and 1,995-1,996 include protest and approval correspondence concerning
screening and censorship of textbooks and correspondence from the Subcommittee to
Investigate Alleged Un-American Influences in Our Schools to the Los Angeles Citizens'
Committee on Education regarding review procedures for textbook evaluation which
includes a glossary of the following terms: Capitalism, Collectivism, Communism,
Fascism and Socialism.
Materials in Box 1,996 also include Board discussions, newspaper clippings, records
of telephone calls and Board correspondence concerning community complaints and Board
member criticisms of the following history textbooks "likely to stir racial antagonism
and abet communism" which were recommended for adoption: Negro American Heritage, The
American Negro and Our Oriental Americans.
Copies of Americans All: The American Negro and Americans All: Our Oriental Americans
may be accessed within the Subject Files series, Publications - Box 1,585.
box 1,999, folder 1
box 1,999, folder 2-5
Three R's 1940-1955
The Three R's : Readin', 'Ritin' and 'Rithmetic are described in the spirit of
Theodore Roosevelt's embrace of American educational idealism by Superintendent
Vierling Kersey as fundamental skills for life long learning. Kersey explains this
program in the District publication, "The 3 R's and Readiness For Life . . .".
Materials include principles of this educational program, petitions from parents
demanding the District's compliance with educational code for an improved curriculum
which prepares students for life and leadership, correspondence from parents and the
Citizens Schools Committee concerning the District's over-emphasis of progressive
education, copies of Board Minutes wherein President Elliott defends the District's
"middle of the road" policy intended to safeguard the schools from "extremists" in any
field of educational philosophy and newspaper clippings including the Herald and
Express' series of articles exposing parent criticisms of the District's alleged
embrace of "progressive education" and abandonment of the three R's.
box 2,000, folder 1-2
box 2,000, folder 3-6
box 2,000, folder 7
Toxic Substance Control 1999-2000
Copy of the Board adopted motion entitled "New Schools - Safe Schools" concerning the
Belmont Learning Complex, environmental assessment standards and an immediate
investigation into this project. Materials also include related required documents of
the State of California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) regarding its
oversight of remedial investigations and cleanup activities at Jefferson Middle
School.
box 2,000, folder 8
Tracking College Admission 2006 June 13-2006 June 29
Secondary Instructional Support Services Division proposal that the Board designate
the National Student Clearinghouse as a recipient of directory information in order to
track college enrollment of LAUSD graduates. The Division describes this information
as critical to the implementation of the A-G initiative and targeting resources to
address low "college going" rates.
box 2,000, folder 9
box 2,001-2,003, box 2,004, folder 1-2
Transfer of Pupils 1937-1998
Press releases on transfer permits, District permit and open enrollment policies
related to deliberations on school integration, maps of neighborhood school
boundaries, correspondence concerning transfer of pupils from various schools and
redrawing boundaries for student integration, bulletins on open school permit
applications which include definitions of open and closed schools, copies of permit
applications and petitions of protest to any changes of the District's First Come,
First Served Open Permit Policy which reiterate that this system is aligned with the
Board's policy of "Equal Educational Opportunity for All."
Materials also include Opportunity Transfer Reports and Bulletins which explain this
policy as a carefully planned transfer from one District school to another with the
intention of assisting pupils whose achievement, attendance or behavior may be
positively affected by a change of social and educational environment. An assignment
to an Opportunity, Continuation or Adult School is not an Opportunity Transfer. These
Reports chart student ethnicity, sex and reasons for transfer. Some examples of
reasons for transfer include the following: alcohol, drugs, expulsion, gang activity,
protection of student, stealing, truancy and weapons.
Additional materials include handbooks and reports concerning the District's Permits
With Transportation (PWT) Program which was initiated in 1968 by the Voluntary
Transportation Program to assist with moving students out of their neighborhood
schools for integration purposes. In 1972, Board action initiated the use of PWT to
transport students who faced overcrowded home schools to schools with empty
classrooms.
box 2,004, folder 3
Transition Partnership Program 1989 October 30-2007 May 22
Division of Special Education proposals for the continuation of the Transition
Partnership Program, designed to serve students with disabilities as they prepare to
transition to post secondary activities. This program provides students with
transition services, case management, work based assessment and job placement
services.
box 2,005-2,017, box 2,079, box 2,078, folder 5-7
Transportation 1934-2006
Bulk of materials related to bus transportation including Standing Committee Reports,
petitions, correspondence and integration busing program plans such as
Transport-A-Child and Permits With Transportation.
Box 2,005-2,007: Bus transportation bids, leases, charges, Grand Jury Report on
transportation irregularities, pupil transportation rules, reports of special bus
trips and petitions and correspondence for transportation services (1934-1961).
Box 2,008-2,010: Board Minutes on bus transportation contracts, correspondence
against transportation budget cuts, petitions for bus service and Superintendent's
Memorandum on the Exact Fare Bus Plan (1935-1973).
Box 2,011-2,013: Correspondence in favor of busing, President Gardner's statement on
City license fees for school buses, Survey and Report of District Transportation
Operations and District Integration Unit's Transport-A-Child Program Reports
(1936-1976).
Box 2,014-2,015: Correspondence from Chairman Ramiro Joaquin Garcia of the Mexican
American Education Commission concerning the Permits With Transportation (PWT)
Program, PWT Program Overview and Guidelines, PWT Participating School Data Books and
contracts and counsel correspondence concerning Los Angeles City School District v.
Landier Management Co. (1951-1977).
Box 2,016-2,017: Transportation Policies and Procedures, PWT Program: An Evaluation
and Board Rules regarding transportation. (1935-2006).
Box 2,078-2,079: Transportation Requests (1961-1967).
box 2,018, folder 1
box 2,018, folder 2
box 2,018, folder 3
Treaties 1955
A copy of Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement (Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo), the peace treaty between the United States and Mexico that ended the
Mexican-American War and a copy of Pioneer and Early Public Schools of California and
Los Angeles. This publication traces the history of Pioneer Schools of the State and
in Los Angeles, Schools in Los Angeles during American Occupation and Pioneer Schools
of Los Angeles County.
box 2,018, folder 4
box 2,018, folder 5
Trust Account 2002 February 12-2002 February 26
box 2,018, folder 6-7
Trust Fund 1978-1984
Committee of the Whole Communication regarding the establishment of a LAUSD Trust
Fund in the County Treasury for the Southern California Superintendent's Research
Council and a copy of Deputy Superintendent Anton's statement regarding the tragic
shooting of children at Forty-Ninth Street School that killed ten-year-old Shala
Eubanks. Mr. Anton announced the establishment of a trust fund at Forty-Ninth Street
School in the name of Shala Eubanks to aid the other victims of this tragedy.
box 2,018, folder 8
box 2,018, folder 9-11
Tuition 1945 April 30-1984 January 4
Committee of the Whole Reports concerning assignments of tuition money to parents for
the education of exceptional children in private schools, inter-office correspondence
on fees for foreign students, Adult Education Committee Communication pertaining to
the Adult Education Tuition Fee Policy, Superintendent Handler's correspondence on
tuition tax credits and a Career and Continuing Education Committee Communication on
Tuition Fee Exemption for handicapped adults.
box 2,019-2,020
Tutors 1965 June 10-2006 June 13
Correspondence and Committee Reports regarding the School Volunteer Program's
after-school tutoring and the Reinforcement Tutorial Program.
Materials also include a press release on the Student Tutorial Education Project,
Special Report on Experimental Volunteer Programs in Elementary Schools, A Guide to
Tutorial Programs in the Greater Los Angeles Area, UCLA's Tutorial Project's "How to
Start a Tutorial Project" report, Los Angeles City Schools Office of Urban Affairs
List of Tutorial Projects and Tutoring Tips and The Los Angeles City Schools Volunteer
and Tutorial Section's resource materials presented to the Board and Superintendent
Johnston.
box 2,021-2,026
Un-American Activities 1947-1963
Materials document individuals, events and situations connected with alleged
"Un-American" activities in the schools.
Box 2,021: Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States
Report on Youth for Democracy, League of Women Voters of Los Angeles Education Kit,
Informal Committee of the Whole Notes regarding Fremont High School's district
transitioning from white to colored, Daily News article on Superintendent Stoddard's
cooperation with the state investigation into suspected student Communists, Lucinda E.
Benge's correspondence statements to the Board concerning the use of subversive
textbooks, integration of Negro and white children and Emily C. Philips' Board
statement on integration, "Blacky Tests" or student psychological tests and funding
for ghetto schools.
The Fremont High School folder includes a Pittsburgh Courier article with a photo of
Board member Mrs. Fay Allen at a Board meeting discussing the effigy lynching of Negro
students at Fremont High School on February 14, 1941, including a response from the
police captain at the 77th Street Station who told students and concerned citizens
that he did not have time "to settle problems of Negroes and poor white trash" and
signed letters from the Los Angeles County Council of the Democratic Youth Federation
of California concerning the Fremont Principal's advice that the Negro students in
attendance who were hung in effigy should transfer to another school. Also included is
notarized testimony of a dummy hanging by a rope on the bleachers, protest
correspondence from the Workers School of Los Angeles and informal notes from the
March 6, 1941 Board Meeting concerning investigations of violence against Negro
students.
Materials also include Photostats of Board Minutes, President Elliott's statement and
Fremont High School correspondence and announcements given to Nellie Parr concerning
the March 17, 1947 "Un-American" demonstration and walk out staged by white students
across the street from the school. The students staged this demonstration to protest
the presence of colored girls at the school and hung an effigy on school grounds.
President Elliott remarked on allegations of "Jim Crow" schools in Los Angeles and
cited the presence of Negro and white students from the South together at Fremont as
contributing to this situation. In a letter to President Elliott, Fremont Principal
Herbert S. Wood discussed anti-Negro resentment from white Southern parents and from
property owners in the District who thought that California schools were segregated
and that no Negroes could live here. Wood also mentioned an influx of correspondence
from people all over the country and across the world about this incident due to a
Time magazine article published on March 31, 1947 and mentioned that one of the Negro
girls who caused the most trouble on March 17th had been "eliminated" and is possibly
going to work. Original copies of these materials are housed in the Situation at
Fremont folder (1947-1963).
Box 2,022: Statements from Mrs. Lucinda E. Benge concerning a Board Resolution to
eliminate "de facto segregation," allegations that Resolution author Georgiana Hardy
has a record of multiple Communist-front activities and transcription of Board meeting
concerning Benge's statements. Publications include Un-American Activities in
California Reports 3-8 (1947-1963).
Box 2,023: Copy of the Dilworth Act, "Red" correspondence from the Academic Freedom
Committee of the Los Angeles Federation of Teachers protesting Communist
investigations of teachers, copies of Board litigation against teachers to test the
constitutionality of the Dilworth Act, Committee of the Whole Minutes concerning
Loyalty Check of Employees, newspaper articles on the Dilworth Investigations,
transcriptions of Board meetings on Loyalty, Committee Reports which include loyalty
questions and signed correspondence from Senator Dilworth to Superintendent Findlay
regarding the photo of Mrs. Nell Haas, Twenty-eighth Street Elementary School
Principal used for the frontspiece of the Sixth Report of the Senate Investigating
Committee on Education (1953-1956).
Box 2,024-2,025: Affidavits, transcripts of Board Hearings, copies of Superior Court
proceedings for individual teachers targeted during the Dilworth Investigations, Board
dismissal correspondence and newspaper clippings pertaining to the Board's "Red
Quizzes." Folders are organized alphabetically by teacher's last name (1952-1959).
Box 2,026: Superintendent Stoddard's statement on Loyalty, correspondence from Keep
America Committee concerning the subversive interests of Friendship Day Camp, Inc.,
Point of View on Teaching Controversial Subjects Report, correspondence from American
Anti-Communist Association Inc. Director, Gene Hageberg regarding its proposed
nation-wide educational program and belief that the Fremont School strike against
Negro pupils was inspired by the Communist Party.
Publications include the Sixth, Eleventh and Fourteenth Reports of the Senate
Investigating Committee on Education and copies of the Constitution of the State of
California and of the United States and Other Documents (1947-1962).
box 2,027-2,029
Unclassified Employees 1947-2008
Committee of the Whole Reports concerning salary recommendations and schedules for
unclassified employees or professional experts who are neither in classified nor
certificated service. Materials also include Personnel and Schools Committee
Communications recommending the approval of independent contractor elections and Board
Rules concerning employee requirements to meet and maintain health standards.
box 2,030-2,034
UNESCO 1943-1959
Correspondence and petitions regarding the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO) program and use of the publication, The "E" in UNESCO.
Those opposed to the use of this curriculum in the schools describe it as
"Un-American" corruption "designed to destroy the love of American as a sovereign
nation" while those in favor argue that its removal sets a "dangerous precedent for
future attacks on public education and academic freedom."
Materials also include Board Minutes and transcriptions of wire recordings from Board
meeting discussions of the UNESCO Program, Curriculum Division teaching guides, UNESCO
Bulletins and requests for information on the the UNESCO Program.
Publications include: Education and the People's Peace by the National Education
Association of the United States, Preamble to the UNESCO Constitution, The "E" in
UNESCO, Collier's article, "I Was Called Subversive" by Dorothy Frank, Los Angeles
housewife and advocate for the program, Superintendent's Bulletins, The "S" in UNESCO,
The UNESCO Story Resource and Action Booklet, UNESCO pamphlets and fact sheets,
Practicing the Democratic Way in School, The UNESCO Courier and The World at Work.
box 2,035, folder 1
Uniform Complaint Procedure 1993 February 16-2000 October 27
Committee of the Whole Report adopted by the Board concerning Title 5 Uniform
Complaint Procedure to assist those who wish to make formal complaints about federal
and state funded District programs such as adult basic education, migrant education,
vocational education, child nutrition and special education.
box 2,035, folder 2-3
Uniforms 1936-1995
Personnel Commission Communication to the Committee of the Whole concerning amended
uniform rules, inter-office correspondence regarding uniforms for bus drivers, notes
from the Superintendent's Advisory Council on uniform policies, adopted Committee of
the Whole proposal that security agents be required to wear uniforms and adopted
Superintendent's Communication to the Committee of the Whole authorizing the Board to
furnish firearms for each employee of the Security Section for their own protection
and proper performance of their duties.
box 2,035, folder 4
United Service Organizations 1941-1955
box 2,035, folder 5
United States - Seal of U.S. 1955
box 2,035, folder 6
box 2,035, folder 7
Urban Education Research Fellows Program 2000 December 12-2001 January 9
Planning, Assessment and Research Communication authorizing funding for the Program
Evaluation and Research Branch (PERB) Urban Education Research Fellows Program. The
PERB will recruit graduate student researchers who will work for part-time while
completing their degrees and then join the staff of full-time Research Analysts.
Topics of systematic data collection and analysis include instructional practices,
outcomes of District programs and factors related to student achievement.
box 2,035, folder 8
Urban Initiative 1993 October 18
Committee of the Whole Report authorizing the Superintendent to accept $100,000 grant
from the National Science Foundation to implement "Urban Initiative - Self Study
Proposal for Los Angeles" to initiate or accelerate reform which will lead to a system
in which all children will have the opportunity to learn quality mathematics and
science.
box 2,035, folder 9
box 2,035, folder 10
box 2,036-2,037
Vandalism 1949-1993
Security Section Bulletins and Annual Reports, Informal Committee of the Whole Notes,
Committee Reports, transcriptions of Board recordings, Committee of the Whole and
Committee on Vandalism meetings, Los Angeles Police Department Annual Reports, City of
Los Angeles juvenile arrest data, correspondence from students at Cienega Elementary
School and community correspondence concerning illegal entries to schools, vandalism,
malicious mischief insurance, school depredations, canine patrol units and
fingerprinting students to prevent crime.
box 2,038, folder 1
box 2,038, folder 2
Venereal Disease 1945 September 12-1945 November 1
Correspondence concerning the increase in venereal disease in Los Angeles among teen
boys and girls and materials from the Board meeting with a committee of the Venereal
Disease Control Council to find ways to extend the sex education and venereal disease
control programs in the schools.
box 2,038, folder 3-6, box 2,039, folder 1-3
box 2,039, folder 4-6, box 2,040, folder 1
Violence 1978-1998
Memoranda on Board policy regarding violence on campus, copies of anti-violence
resolutions, correspondence concerning incidents on school grounds and Reports
including the following: A Lawsuit to Restore Safety in the Schools, A Start to
Stopping School Weapons and Violence: Recommendations by the School Safety and
Security Task Force and Gang Involvement: Secondary Schools which includes lists of
gangs by campus, approximate numbers, ethnic breakdowns, identifying graffiti, rival
and compatible gangs and crimes perpetrated by gang members on campus.
box 2,040, folder 2
Visiting Days 1948 January 15-1956 April 16
box 2,041-2,042
Visitors 1953 July 9-1972 May 22
Copies of Board Minutes which report on the presence of visitors at Board meetings
and school sites such as first ladies of United States and Mexico, Mrs. Lyndon B.
Johnson and Mrs. Adolfo Lopez Mateos' visit to Abraham Lincoln High School on February
21, 1964 and inter-office correspondence concerning Attorney General Robert F.
Kennedy's talk at Roosevelt High School on June 8, 1964.
box 2,043-2,044
Vocational Education 1935 June 26-1993 August 16
Vocational Education guidelines, Report on Apportionment of Federal and State
Vocational Education Funds to School Districts, A Study of the District's Vocational
and Practical Arts Program, Graduation Requirements and Curricula handbook for junior
and senior high schools, Catalog of Authorized Courses for Junior and Senior High
Schools, Continuation Classes, Metropolitan School of Business and Frank Wiggins Trade
School, charts of vocational education course offerings at senior high schools,
Committee Reports concerning funding, agreements and authorizations and copies of the
Board's Annual Reports concerning industrial training, manual training and Schools of
Trades.
box 2,045, folder 1-3
box 2,045, folder 4
box 2,045, folder 5
box 2,046
box 2,047-2,048, box 2,049, folder 1-4
War 1935-1947
War Bulletins on the Schools-At-War Thrift Program, War Stamps and Bond Purchases,
the "Name-Your-Weapon" Campaign and films for assemblies such as "Loaded for War" and
"New Soldiers Are Tough."
Special War Bulletins include Civilian Defense Insignia and What They Mean and Your
Place in the War Program: A War Activities Program for Elementary Schools.
Black and white photos of school grounds after the May 1942 drive for salvage
material, Personnel and Schools Committee Communications concerning the Army Service
Training Program (A.S.T.P.), Personnel Commission Communications concerning Public
Works Administration force accounts, Emergency Communications regarding gasoline,
sugar and food rationing, United China Relief "Esteemed Grandparent" campaign
correspondence, War Chest Bulletins and Teachers' Information Manual: Los Angeles Area
War Chest, WHAT Can I Do: The Citizen's Handbook for War and requests and proposals
for Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) projects.
Other materials include Inter-Office Correspondence lists of community agencies to
assist families during the Middle East Crisis, "Operation Desert Storm," Selective
Service and You... brochures, Memorandum concerning Selective Service Information and
Students' Rights, Draft Counseling and Educational Centers booklet and inter-office
correspondence from Superintendent in response to critical inquiries about Senior High
School Military Panel Presentations.
box 2,049, folder 5-7, box 2,050, folder 1-2
box 2,050, folder 3
box 2,051-2,054
Weeks 1930-2006
Board Resolutions, calendars and an instructional guide pertaining to District
observance of special days, weeks and months to honor, recognize, appreciate and
educate students, families and communities about select individuals, groups, cultures,
epidemics, organizations, institutions and ideas.
Some examples are the following: Armed Forces Day, Women's Equality Day, Boys' Week,
Know Your America Week, set up by an organization known as the The All-American
Conference to Combat Communism, AIDS Education Month and African American History
Month.
Boys' Week materials include a copies of Board Minutes and Superintendent's Advisory
Council Notes that document an official communication concerning participation in
Boys' Week which was sent out to administrators in the public schools with the
following statement: "OFFICIALS MAKE THIS REQUEST: Do not send Colored, Japanese, or
Chinese boys. Please assign real Americans."
box 2,055, folder 1
Weighted Student Formula 2003 December 1-2004 January 20
box 2,056, box 2,055, folder 2-8
Welfare 1948-1997
Board Communications concerning agreements with the Welfare Council of Metropolitan
Los Angeles, correspondence regarding requests for a Health Education program, Welfare
Planning Council, Los Angeles Region Minutes, correspondence regarding the Welfare
Planning Council's Conference on Childhood and Youth, California Department of
Education working document on The Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act
of 1996.
Publications include the following: Recommendations from the Assembly Conference on
"Jobs for Youth in Los Angeles Area," Annual Report of the LAUSD Child Welfare and
Attendance Branch, Divergent Youth, Suspensions, Referral Rooms and Social Adjustment
Transfers, Third Annual Seminar Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles
Juvenile Departments and The One Who Doesn't Fit: A Survey of the Problems of the "A"
Pupil and Conditions Surrounding Him.
box 2,057, folder 1
Whistleblower Protection Policy 2002 January 22-2002 February 12
box 2,057, folder 2
box 2,057, folder 3
box 2,057, folder 4
World Friendship 1946-1947
Curriculum Division Bulletins and correspondence concerning the District's World
Friendship Clubs. The World Friendship Committee was organized in January, 1926 by
Superintendent Susan M. Dorsey to plan ways of increasing international understanding
and good will on the part of boys and girls in the Los Angeles schools.
box 2,057, folder 5
Work Experience Program 1980 June 9-1993 October 18
box 2,057, folder 6
WorkForce Investment Act 2001 March 13
Board of Education Report proposal that the Board approve revision to the attached
delegation of authority concerning federal funding for various employment training
programs. The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) was the federal program which acted
as the funding force. The program name changed to the WorkForce Investment Act
(WIA).
box 2,057, folder 7
Workforce LA School-To-Work Youth Academy 1990 November 5-1990 November 19
box 2,057, folder 8
box 2,057, folder 9
box 2,057, folder 10
Year 2000 Steering Committee 1997 December 1
box 2,057, folder 11
YMCA 2007 October 23
Board of Education Report from the Facilities Division which proposes that the Board
authorize District staff to execute a Joint Use Lease Agreement with the YMCA of
Metropolitan Los Angeles for the development of mutually beneficial facilities on the
University High School campus.
box 2,058
Youth Activities 1935-1983
Excerpts of letters and a program from the District's Cavalcade of Youth program at
the Hollywood Bowl and Bulletins on Defense Training Programs for National Youth
Administration (N.Y.A.).
Materials also include Youth Services Program calendars, brochures and reports,
correspondence, proposal and brochure for Sugar Ray Robinson's Youth Foundation,
Advantages of Youth Services booklet and summary sheets for Groups Using Board of
Education Athletic and Recreational Facilities on a Permit Basis.
box 2,059, folder 1
box 2,059, folder 2
Youth Education 1949 August 5-1959 July 17
Emergency Communication to the Committee of the Whole from Superintendent Stoddard
regarding the establishment of a Youth Education Clinic at the Custer Avenue School to
provide remedial services for junior and senior high school boys who require special
services due to attendance issues and other "maladjustments" with school and
community.
box 2,059, folder 3
box 2,059, folder 4
box 2,059, folder 5-8
Zoning 1927-2001
Correspondence, Committee Reports and maps pertaining to city and county zoning
ordinances and rezoning of District land and school sites.
Materials include an Official Atlas District Zoning Map of the City of Los Angeles as
authorized by City Council and correspondence opposing the location of a mental
hospital on Sepulveda Boulevard near Van Nuys High School.
Personnel 1921-2000
The personnel records include documents generated by the Board and the Personnel
Division that concern certificated and classified employees. Certificated employees are
those for whom state educational credentials are prescribed by law. Classified employees
are those for whom no definite educational credentials are required. Materials include
copies of Board minutes, standing committee reports and correspondence pertaining to
matters such as staff integration, salary, investigations, grievance procedures,
reduction in force, employee organizations and collective bargaining.
Certificated 1921-2000
box 2,199, folder 1, box 2,149
box 2,199, folder 4-5, box 2,119, folder 3-4
Adjustment Procedures 1947 February 24-1985 June 17
box 2,190, folder 1-2, box 2,200, folder 1, box 2,119, folder 5, box 2,120, folder 1-2, box 2,212, folder 5-6
box 2,199, folder 2-3
box 2,200, folder 2-6
box 2,200, folder 7
Affirmative Action 1974 February 28-1976 December 9
Correspondence from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP), Watts Branch concerning the District's Publication #354 Racial and Ethnic
Survey, Fall 1975 which it considered in violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and
its amendment of 1972. The NAACP recommended that the District adopt an affirmative
action policy to balance employment between the ethnic minority and majority
personnel. Materials also include a Superintendent's Communication presented to the
Committee of the While regarding the proposed adoption of the attached Equal
Opportunity Policy and Affirmative Action Program and correspondence of commendation
from Women Educators (WE).
box 2,206, folder 6
box 2,120, folder 5-6, box 2,121, folder 1-4, box 2,201, box 2,150
Assignments 1934 July 19-2000 June 13
box 2,202, folder 4
box 2,202, folder 5
box 2,206, folder 7
box 2,121, folder 5-6, box 2,122-2,123, box 2,202, folder 6-7, box 2,188, box 2,151, box 2,152, folder 1-3
Classification 1939 May 15-1998 January 7
box 2,202, folder 8
Coaches 1999 February 9-1999 February 23
box 2,202, folder 9
Code 1939 May 4-1961 July 3
box 2,202, folder 10
box 2,203, folder 1
Collective Bargaining 1989-1995
box 2,203, folder 2
Committee on Assignments 1989 September 11
box 2,124, folder 1
box 2,203, folder 3-4
box 2,203, folder 5-6
box 2,148, folder 1-3, box 2,203, folder 7-11, box 2,190, folder 3-4, box 2,199, folder 6
Coordinators 1953 August 24-1996 October 21
Personnel Division Communications prepared for the Personnel and Schools Committee
concerning approval on personnel action for Coordinator positions and Statements of
Duties for various Coordinator positions.
Box 2,148: (1953-1978).
Box 2,190: (1979-1984).
Box 2,199: (1977-1989).
Box 2,203: (1984-1996).
box 2,154, folder 3, box 2,124, folder 2-3, box 2,204, folder 1, box 2,191, folder 1-2, box 2,152, folder 3-4, box 2,153, folder 1-3
Counselors 1958 June 23-1992 March 9
Box 2,124: Committee Communications and Board Rules concerning counselor positions
(1959-1974).
Box 2,152: Correspondence concerning the noon-duty aide program, Committee on
Research Studies Non Duty-Aides Program Report and copies of the Los Angeles
Elementary Teachers Club Board Presentation on Noon Time Activities (1958-1969).
Box 2,153 and 2,191: Personnel Division Communications recommending that actions be
approved for counselor positions and Bulletins and Board Minutes describing the
selection, assignment and responsibilities of counselors (1960-1985).
Box 2,154: Materials include the Personnel and Schools Committee Report which
established the Counselor Aide Class and Committee Reports and Communications
concerning the Counselor Aide Program (1973-1977).
Box 2,204: Committee of the Whole Reports concerning the election of counselors
(1986-1992).
box 2,192, box 2,204, folder 2-4
Credentials 1934 October 18-2000 July 25
Administrative Guide Rules concerning county certificates, teaching credential
requirements and specializations. Materials include eligibility lists of
certificated employees available for assignments, proposals for credential waiver
authorizations and reports of teacher assignments and credential authorizations.
Box 2,192: (1934-1986).
Box 2,204: (1972-2000).
box 2,153, folder 4-5, box 2,204, folder 5-6
box 2,124, folder 5, box 2,205, folder 1-2
Degree Requirement 1953 September 22-1975 October 23
Box 2,124: Correspondence of protest against the Board's new salary schedule which
requires advanced degrees in order to attain the maximum teaching salary
(1953-1954).
Box 2,205: Board Rules and Personnel Division Communications concerning degree
requirements for certificated positions (1953-1975).
box 2,205, folder 3
box 2,124, folder 4, box 2,205, folder 4
Department Heads 1936 August 12-1983 October 27
box 2,205, folder 5
box 2,154, folder 1-2, box 2,205, folder 6
Directors & Presidents 1946 June 27-1991 September 4
Box 2,154: Communications prepared by the Personnel Division pertaining to
approvals of Director position elections at various school sites and Committee
Reports concerning College Presidents (1946-1983).
Box 2,205: Communications prepared by the Personnel Division pertaining to
approvals of Director position elections (1983-1991).
box 2,115-2,117, box 2,191, folder 3-5, box 2,205, folder 7
Dismissals 1934-1999
Board correspondence to employees concerning dismissals of certificated personnel
at high schools and junior colleges for reasons such as reduction in enrollment, a
male teacher impersonating a woman and "conditions beyond its control."
Materials include signed protest correspondence.
Box 2,115-2,117: (1934-1947).
Box 2,191: (1935-1985).
Box 2,205: (1985-1999).
box 2,120, folder 3
box 2,206, folder 1
box 2,206, folder 2
box 2,206, folder 3
box 2,172-2,175
Employee Organizations 1946-1982
Box 2,172: Employee Relations Council Operating Guide, correspondence from Los
Angeles Teachers Association (LATA) and Affiliated Teacher Organizations of Los
Angeles (ATOLA), LATA Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws, lists of certificated
employee organizations and The Crisis in Elementary Education: An Introduction to a
Master Plan for Education by the Association of Elementary School Administrators
(1946-1967).
Box 2,173: Correspondence related organizational records from the Council of
Administrators and Supervisors of Los Angeles (CASLA), Professional Educators Los
Angeles (PELA), Association of Classroom Teachers Los Angeles (ACT-LA), Secondary
Teachers Organization of Los Angeles, Inc. (SeTO), Los Angeles Association of
Secondary School Administrators (LASSA) and the California School Employees
Association (CSEA) representing Unit A: Security (1962-1982).
Box 2,174: Summary of Joint Recommendations Los Angeles City Schools and The
Certificated Employee Council, Special Reports from the Office of Staff Relations,
correspondence from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Local 1021 and
Negotiating Proposals of the Certificated Employee Council (1969-1976).
Box 2,175: Unified Negotiating Council and Certificated Employee Council Membership
Audits (1966-1976).
box 2,206, folder 4
box 2,156, box 2,206, folder 5, box 2,131
Employment 1936 March 30-1992 April 22
Box 2,131: Inter-Office Correspondence concerning reduction in force of
certificated employees, policies and procedures, chart of types of classes and
teachers, transcripts of grievance hearings and correspondence of protest and
approval regarding the recommended demotion of Dr. Edwin Baldwin Angier, Director of
the Clarence W. Pierce School of Agriculture (1939-1972).
Box 2,156: Materials include applications for positions, Personnel Division
Communications concerning age limits, court cases involving the Dilworth Act, Board
Rules requiring loyalty questions and the oath of allegiance and Teachers and
Schools Committee Reports on residence requirements (1936-1978).
Box 2,206: Personnel and Schools Committee Communication regarding revisions to the
District's Affirmative Action Program and Equal Opportunity Policy and Committee of
the Whole Communications concerning Board Rule revisions (1972-1992).
box 2,206, folder 8
box 2,133, folder 1-3, box 2,206, folder 9-12, box 2,207, folder 1-3
Examinations 1936 January 8-1995 January 23
Box 2,133: Committee Communications and Board Rules, policies and procedures
concerning examination procedures for employees seeking promotion. Materials also
include records for individual cases (1936-1968).
Box 2,206: Transcripts of wire recordings of Board meeting discussions of teacher
examination procedures and copies of Board Resolutions and Standing Committee
Communications concerning examination procedures (1953-1995).
Box 2,207: Personnel Division Communications concerning fees, fingerprints,
photographs and experience portions of teacher examinations (1936-1972).
box 2,207, folder 4
box 2,207, folder 5
box 2,207, folder 6
box 2,207, folder 7, box 2,193, folder 1-2
box 2,148, folder 8
Hillman's Proposed Reorganization 1953-1971
Materials include a transcript of a wire recording from the Committee of the Whole
meeting presentation by Mr. Hillman on his proposed reorganization of the District's
administration, Survey Proposal of the District's Organization and Management,
Organization Charts, Report of Certificated Salary Survey and a copy of a salary
schedule survey which compares maximum salaries of administration positions in
twenty large California school districts.
box 2,207, folder 8
box 2,207, folder 9-10
box 2,120, folder 4
Informals and Wire Recordings 1952 September 25-1953 September 24
Tentative Communication to Committee of the Whole regarding Elementary Teacher
Recruitment and Selection Policies, Personnel Division correspondence related to the
dismissal of probationary certificated employees, Inter-Office correspondence on
policies and practices relative to the probationary period for new teachers and
adjustment procedures and transcripts of wire recordings from Board meetings and
Committee of the Whole meeting notes concerning grievance procedures.
box 2,208, folder 1-4
box 2,132, box 2,133, folder 4-5
Institute 1936-1972
Box 2,132: Bulletins, announcements and Committee Communications concerning the
Institute for Certificated Personnel, an annual professional development program for
teachers.
Box 2,133: Protest correspondence concerning the discontinuance of the Teachers'
Institute and the addition of five days to the school year. Memos, Committee Reports
and transcripts of Board Minutes concerning the finality of these decisions by Board
action.
box 2,207, folder 12
box 2,157, box 2,193, folder 3-4
Investigations 1953 May 7-1987 March 30
Box 2,157: Case files on individual employees which include the following: legal
action against the Board on behalf of an employee alleging racial discrimination,
charge for dismissal of an employee for striking her pupils over the course of three
years at Berendo, Gage and Stevenson Junior High Schools and settlement of claim for
back salary and benefits for a secondary teacher suspended and given notice of
dismissal for violation of the Levering and Dilworth Acts (1953-1975).
Box 2,193: Investigations of certificated employees and Personnel and Schools
Committee Communications concerning dismissals. Materials include a copy of Claim of
Abraham Minkus vs. Los Angeles Board of Education and Claim of Serril Gerber vs. Los
Angeles Board of Education, tenured teachers who were fired by the Board as a result
of the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings. Materials also include a
full page advertisement in favor of Sal Castro, "The Brown Socrates" remaining at
Lincoln High School (1968-1987).
box 2,208, folder 5
box 2,208, folder 6
box 2,154, folder 4-5, box 2,162, box 2,155, box 2,197, folder 1-2, box 2,118, box 2,134, box 2,268, box 2,208, folder 7-10, box 2,209, folder 1-11
Leave of Absence 1930 January 6-1999 June 3
Leave of Absence request forms, correspondence, reports and Board Rules related to
sabbatical, illness, acts of violence, family care, jury duty, maternity and
military service.
Box 2,118: (1936-1966).
Box 2,134: (1932-1971).
Box 2,154: (1942-1975).
Box 2,155: (1930-1980).
Box 2,162: (1972-1976).
Box 2,197: (1976-1987).
Box 2,208: (1975-1991).
Box 2,209: (1970-1999).
Box 2,268: Materials pertain to civilian defense leaves, military leave rules,
County Counsel opinions on military service, military service deferment and military
advisers in high schools which includes A Brief Summary of Armed Forces - Los
Angeles Senior High School Relations (1936-1978).
box 2,209, folder 12
box 2,209, folder 13-14
box 2,210, folder 1
box 2,148, folder 4
box 2,210, folder 2
box 2,148, folder 5
box 2,135
Negotiating Council (Unified) 1965 October 21-1969 June 23
The Unified District Negotiating Council adopted as part of its official position
on November 9, 1967, that it is the only representative of employee organizations
authorized to meet and negotiate regarding matters such as employment conditions,
employer-employee relations, educational objectives and curriculum.
Materials include Minutes of the Negotiating Council, the Council's Standing Rules
of Order and a copy of Eleven Vital Steps for the 1970s: An Appraisal of the Los
Angeles City Unified School District's Preparation Salary Schedule and Related
Matters.
box 2,216, folder 3, box 2,210, folder 3-4
box 2,210, folder 5
box 2,210, folder 7-8, box 2,158-2,159, box 2,136-2,137
Norms 1935-1997
Bulletins, schedules and tables related to enrollment, class sizes and number of
teachers and class loads tabulated during the first months of each school year.
These factors among others such as reports on overcrowded sites and over-under
teachered sites assist the Board with establishing norms for school sites.
Box 2,136: (1935-1953).
Box 2,137: (1954-1968).
Box 2,158: Includes "Urgent Needs of Mid-City Secondary Schools" Board
presentations (1968-1972).
Box 2,159: Includes parental correspondence concerning bilingual teachers,
overcrowding and busing for integration and a 1948-1949 Number of Full-Time Teaching
Staff Positions Summarized by District Report (1972-1979).
Box 2,210: (1979-1997).
box 2,215, folder 6-7, box 2,210, folder 6
box 2,210, folder 9
box 2,128, folder 5
Petitions to the Board 1969 May 8
Petitions signed by certificated employees and presented to the Board by Larry
Sibelman.
Petitioners ask the Board to take the following action if the tax measure on the
April ballot fails to obtain the necessary vote of the electorate: 1.) No cuts in
the educational program; 2.) Implement the AFT proposal for a fully-funded
retirement program; 3.) Obtain money from state surplus for educational programs;
and 4.) Lobby for legislative action to change the method of financing schools to
relieve the tax burden of residential property owners.
box 2,119, folder 1-2, box 2,210, folder 11-13
box 2,210, folder 10
Physicians 1990 March 12-1990 October 15
box 2,213, folder 8
Point System 1949 September 8-1983 June 20
Board Rules, excerpts from Minutes and Standing Committee Communications related to
the District's salary point system. A point as determined in the salary schedule is
unit of measurement of preparation, training or special service. Accumulation of
points allows employees to advance on the salary schedule
box 2,210, folder 14, box 2,160-2,161, box 2,189, box 2,163, box 2,125-2,126, box 2,202, folder 2-3, box 2,129, box 2,194
Principal and Vice Principal 1934 September 24-1999 June 22
Box 2,125-2,126: Materials include form letters to new principals, bulletins
regarding filing applications for evaluation of of principals and vice principals,
The Probationary Teacher: A Handbook of Information for Principals, Annual Report
from the Los Angeles Junior High School Principals' Association, protest
correspondence against the transfer of principals, petitions for the removal,
appointment and retention of principals, policies and procedures for the selection
of administrators (1934-1971).
Box 2,129: Transcripts of statements in opposition to budget cuts in elementary
school principal assignments, community correspondence concerning the appointment
and retention of principals and petitions against part-time principals due to budget
cuts (1971-1975).
Box 2,160-2,161: Correspondence concerning the John Adams Junior High School
Principal and the Pacoima Elementary School Principal (1975-1982).
Box 2,163 and 2,189: Standing Committee Reports and Communications concerning the
approval of Assistant Principal elections, petitions for the retention of the Luther
Burbank Junior High School Assistant Principal (1974-1988).
Box 2,194 and 2,210: Standing Committee Reports and Communications pertaining to
the elections of Principals (1983-1995).
Box 2,202: Standing Committee Reports and Communications pertaining to the
elections of Assistant Principals (1988-1999).
box 2,216, folder 4, box 2,211, folder 1
box 2,211, folder 2
box 2,211, folder 3
box 2,211, folder 4
box 2,196, folder 3
box 2,211, folder 5, box 2,196, folder 1-2
Ratings 1952 January 7-1992 July 28
Standing Committee Reports, proposals and correspondence concerning the performance
evaluation and assessment of certificated employees. Individual cases include
correspondence from teachers who received unsatisfactory ratings for reasons such as
teaching religion and morality and for paddling students.
box 2,195, box 2,211, folder 6-9
Recruitment 1945-1993
Box 2,195: Correspondence, Bulletins and Reports concerning teacher recruitment
including a Report on Current Certificated Salaries in California Cities and in
Larger United States Cities. Materials include Board meeting Minutes which document
a presentation on teacher recruitment with attached comparative salary and education
graphs. Records also include teacher recruitment brochures, pamphlets, booklets and
articles (1948-1966).
Box 2,211: Copy of "Permanently Injured" by Edmund Bradley, a booklet on the
District's educational inequities and the Afro-American community, District Teacher
Recruitment Program publications, an organization survey of the Personnel Division's
Recruitment and Examination Section and a copy of the Board's Annual Report of
1903-1904 regarding the selection of new teachers (1945-1993).
box 2,212, folder 1-3
box 2,212, folder 4
box 2,196, folder 4
box 2,212, folder 7-8
box 2,202, folder 1
box 2,180, box 2,213, folder 1-3, box 2,198, folder 1-2
box 2,140, folder 3-4, box 2,213, folder 4-7, box 2,139
Retirement - State 1936 August 24-2000 April 25
Correspondence requesting the Board to fully fund the teachers' retirement system,
reports concerning the State Teachers' Retirement System, proposals for retirement
benefit improvements, proposed study of the District Retirement System and Summary
prepared by the Personnel Division of Retirement and Related Benefits for
Certificated Employees.
Box 2,139: (1936-1972).
Box 2,140: (1972-1974).
Box 2,213: (1974-2000).
box 2,142-2,146, box 2,181-2,186, box 2,176-2,179, box 2,215, folder 1-5, box 2,214
Salary 1929-2000
Box 2,142: Salary rates, charts, policies, classifications, requests for
adjustments, salary proposals from various associations, Los Angeles Teachers
Association Analysis of Certificated Salary Practices in Los Angeles City Schools,
Personnel Division Salary Survey Data for Determination of Certificated Salaries
(1935-1959).
Box 2,143: Salaries for Teachers Survey presented to the Board by Affiliated
Teacher Organizations of Los Angeles, correspondence from the Negotiating Council to
the Board regarding the continuation of Friday paydays and American Federation of
Teachers (AFT) Bulletins including AFT Local 1021, "Why Teachers Need a Salary
Reallocation Upward" (1953-1966).
Box 2,144: Press releases on salary increases, Inter-Office Correspondence from
Superintendent Crowther to the Board regarding teacher walkout, report from the Los
Angeles School Counselors' Association, press releases announcing the results of an
independent appraisal of the District's teacher salary structure and letters of
protest from community college instructors (1966-1968).
Box 2,145: Salary schedules, rates, in-service training reviews, Board Rules,
policies, applications and charts related to the District's salary point system. A
point as determined in the salary schedule is unit of measurement of preparation,
training or special service. Accumulation of points allows employees to advance on
the salary schedule (1946-1974).
Box 2,146: Distribution tables of Principals, Vice-Principals and Teachers' Salary
Schedules, correspondence concerning fees for point projects, In-Service Education
Catalogues of Projects and Schedules of Point Projects (1938-1963).
Box 2,176-2,178: Board Rules, correspondence, proposals and reports pertaining to
salary rates, schedules, and increases and reductions (1968-1976).
Box 2,179: Personnel Division Communications concerning Allocation Rules to salary
schedules and Committee of the Whole Reports regarding agreements for in-service
teacher trainings (1944-1978).
Box 2,181-2,185: Correspondence, Standing Committee Reports and Communications
regarding salary schedules, rates and a salary increase petition and report to the
Board from Affiliated Teacher Organizations of Los Angeles (1929-1979).
Box 2,186: Standing Committee Reports and Communications concerning salary
schedules, Salary Survey Reports, copy of a teachers' salary opinion poll and
individual legal cases and investigations (1954-1974).
Box 2,214: Board Rule regarding progressive advancement within the class for
employees in positions requiring certification qualifications, Law and Rules
Committee Communication concerning salary step advancement and a School-Based
Administrator Compensation Study (1938-2000).
Box 2,215: Salary schedules and rates (1973-1989).
box 2,164, folder 1-4
box 2,164, folder 5
box 2,215, folder 8
box 2,164, folder 10
Social Worker 1959 April 6-1960 March 14
box 2,215, folder 9
box 2,216, folder 1-2, box 2,197, folder 3-4
box 2,215, folder 10
box 2,148, folder 6
box 2,216, folder 5, box 2,165
Staff Integration 1975 December 1-1986 August 21
Correspondence concerning the District's voluntary Staff Integration program
adopted by the Board on January 6, 1975, Staff Integration Proposal as required by
the Office of Civil Rights during a meeting with the District on March 5, 1976 to
balance teaching staff on the basis of ethnicity, petitions and correspondence
regarding this mandatory transfer of teachers.
box 2,147, box 2,216, folder 6-7, box 2,127
Strikes 1970 January 12-1993 February 15
Box 2,127: Petitions and correspondence concerning a teacher's strike which include
a copy of a letter from twenty-four student body presidents to the Board, Governor
Ronald Reagan and the California State Legislature which describes the gradual
deterioration of the schools and supports the teachers on strike. Materials also
include a copy of a negotiating package between United Teachers Los Angeles and the
Los Angeles City Schools (1970 Jan.-Apr.).
Box 2,147: Petitions from non-striking teachers and concerned citizens in support
of the Board's opposition to the UTLA strike, correspondence from students asking
for their teachers back, copy of Agreement Between the District and the Negotiating
Council and Strike Information Bulletins from Superintendent Kelly (1970
May-July).
Box 2,216: LAUSD Message to All Certificated Employees Regarding Threatened UTLA
Boycott of Grading Duties, correspondence from UTLA and students expressing their
feelings about the strike (1970-1993).
box 2,128, folder 1-4, box 2,138, box 2,140, folder 1-2
box 2,170, folder 1-4, box 2,140, folder 5, box 2,216, folder 9
Supervisors 1945 September 10-1992 June 25
Personnel Division Communications concerning the classification and
reclassification of Supervisors, Board Rules, Statements of Duty and correspondence
regarding budget cuts and the elimination of supervisory staff.
Box 2,140: (1945-1964).
Box 2,170: (1964-1980).
Box 2,216: (1980-1992).
box 2,171, box 2,170, folder 5-6
Survey 1959 October 15-1968 September 5
Administrative Survey Report, Progress Report on the Superintendent's Survey of
Administration and Supervision Within the Los Angeles City School System,
transcriptions of Board meeting discussions on the aforementioned Superintendent's
Survey, "Decentralizing Administrative Functions in Large School Districts" text of
paper, Structure Charts and Organizing For Tomorrow's Educational Needs: Report Upon
Survey of Administration and Supervision Within the Los Angeles City School
System.
box 2,164, folder 6
Tape Recording 1973 November 28-1973 December 6
Correspondence to Board President Bardos from United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA)
President Bob Unruhe requesting that administrators cease and desist from taping
classroom teachers and children without proper consent and that eavesdropping on the
part of administrators be subject to immediate dismissal.
box 2,166-2,169, box 2,187, box 2,141, box 2,217-2,220, box 2,198, folder 3-4, box 2,216, folder 8, box 2,130
Teachers 1935 January 21-1999 June 29
Box 2,130: Correspondence urging guarantees for all teachers such as fully paid
sabbatical leave, health and dental plan, personal and sick leave and class size
reduction. Materials also include letters and surveys presented to the Board from
faculty associations regarding teacher contracts. Faculty surveys of services
withheld if teachers do not receive a written contract include the following
responses: 1.) Withhold services in September; 2.) Strike; 3.) Take sick leave; 4.)
Take personal leave; and 5.) Accept terms of Board (1937-1969).
Box 2,141: Teachers' Aides materials include petitions from a Community Support
Group urging reinstatement of an Aide, salary tables and correspondence concerning a
comprehensive evaluation of the L.A. City Schools Education Aide Program by an
educational research, development and evaluation services consulting firm
(1965-1975).
Box 2,166: Correspondence of support for Sal Castro from Lincoln Heights merchants,
community members and parents, a copy of "Los Angeles . . . We Must Rule the
Schools!" publication and a Students Talk Against Militant Pressure (STAMP) flyer
demanding that all Brown Berets and outsiders get off campus and leave Lincoln High
alone. Materials also include Superintendent Johnston's Progress Report on the
voluntary and mandatory plans for the racial and ethnic balance of certificated
staff (1946-1974).
Box 2,167: Adopted Personnel and Schools Committee Report and attached certificated
Staff Integration program proposal, copies of Miramonte School parents and community
petition to Judge Paul Egly requesting relief from overcrowding, restoration of
terminated teachers and P.S.A. counselor, correspondence supporting Dr. Nava's
statements before Judge Egly regarding District teachers which includes samples of
racist slurs made by Area A certificated personnel and recorded by a Bandini Street
School Chicano teacher and booklet, Teacher Recognition and Morale: A Beginning
(1974-1982).
Box 2,168: Correspondence, proposals, reports and Board member statements
concerning the Teacher Transfer Policy and the integration of District teachers.
Materials also include a file on reserve teachers, correspondence regarding a march
and demonstration from the Plaza near Olvera Street to the Administrative offices in
support of Sal Castro and petitions against the Board's decision to readmit Castro
to his classroom (1951-1969).
Box 2,169: Policies, Board Rules, petitions and statements to the Board concerning
salary schedules for substitute teachers and probationary employees and Personnel
Division Communications regarding Specialist positions (1965-1980).
Box 2,187: Standing Committee Reports and Communications concerning Teachers' Aides
and Assistants including historical information on Education and Instructional Aides
classifications (1959-1986).
Box 2,198: Report of teacher assignments and credential authorizations, memorandum
on Stull evaluations and copies of addresses to the Board on Lack of Air
Conditioning in Classrooms and Positive Motivation and a Better School District
(1982-1988).
Box 2,216: Standing Committee Reports and Communications concerning student teacher
programs (1966-1975).
Box 2,217-2,220: Materials concerning the following teaching positions: adult
education, auxiliary, bilingual, children's center, conditional, coordinating
training, demonstration, displaced, driver training, exchange, educationally
handicapped, trainees, District Interns, mentor, music, physical education,
probationary, provisional, replacement, resource, special education, studio,
substitute, summer, temporary, Urban Classroom and year-round (1935-1999).
box 2,207, folder 11
box 2,164, folder 9
Terminology 1946-February 25-1961 August 17
box 2,221, folder 1
box 2,221, folder 2
box 2,221, folder 3-4
box 2,148, folder 7
Visiting Days 1948 January 15-1948 January 27
Committee of the Whole Report and Superintendent's Bulletin regarding the
reestablishment of visiting days for teachers. Visiting Days were suspended during
the war and the return of this practice allows teachers to visit another school or
educational program for a partial or full day once a year without loss of pay.
box 2,164, folder 8
box 2,164, folder 7
Welfare Teachers 1946 June 27-1956 June 18
box 2,221, folder 5
Classified 1925-2000
box 2,272, folder 1
box 2,272, folder 5
box 2,272, folder 2-4, box 2,279, folder 14
box 2,272, folder 6
box 2,272, folder 7
box 2,272, folder 8-9, box 2,275, folder 10
box 2,272, folder 10
box 2,272, folder 11-12
box 2,273, folder 1
box 2,274, folder 4, box 2,273, folder 2-5, box 2,275, folder 3-8
Assignments 1935 October 3-1992 September 1
Box 2,273-2,274: Bulletins, Memoranda and Standing Committee Reports concerning
assignment bases and procedures (1935-1991).
Box 2,275: Standing Committee Reports for the following assignments: limited term,
long-term substitutes, provisional, multiple, Civic Center and concurrent
(1937-1992).
box 2,274, folder 11
box 2,274, folder 12
box 2,274, folder 13
box 2,274, folder 15
box 2,282, folder 4-6
Chauffeurs 1935 October 7-1991 August 25
Standing Committee Reports regarding chauffeur service for the Superintendent and
Board members. Chauffeur (sergeant-at-arms) class descriptions, transcript of a
portion of a Personnel Commission discussion of racial discrimination in the
classification of chauffeurs and a Daily News article, "Private Errands at Public
Cost: L.A. School Board Using Drivers on Personal Tasks."
box 2,282, folder 1-2, box 2,222-2,227, box 2,281, folder 14-15, box 2,266, box 2,235-2,236, box 2,260-2,262, box 2,270, folder 2-6, box 2,274, folder 16
Classification and Salary 1936-1990
Box 2,222-2,225: Working Rules and Bylaws of the Classified Employee Relations
Council, List of Recognized Classified Organizations, Organization Charts and
Standing Committee Communications concerning the establishment of classifications,
salary schedules and rates (1936-1967).
Box 2,226: Individual employee cases concerning matters such as incompetency
investigations, salary disputes and discrimination. Cases are organized
alphabetically by last name of employee (1937-1942).
Box 2,227, 2,235-2,236: Standing Committee Communications concerning salary rates,
amendment to Personnel Commission Rules, classifications and reclassifications of
positions (1958-1969).
Box 2,260: Class Title and Salary Schedule Summaries, salary payment corrections
and requests for classification and salary studies (1947-1982).
Box 2,261-2,262: Standing Committee Reports and Communications concerning salary
rates, adjustments, classifications and reclassifications of positions
(1969-1980).
Box 2,266: Personnel Commission Communications concerning reclassification of
positions and classes, abolishment of classes, reallocation of classes and Personnel
Commission Rule amendments. Materials include a list of class titles and salary
rates (1979-1987).
Box 2,270: Class Title and Salary Schedules and Class Titles and Salary Rates
Manuals and Updates (1976-1990).
Box 2,274: Standing Committee Reports (1987-1996).
Box 2,281: Class Titles and Salary Schedules (1965-1971).
Box 2,282: Class Titles and Salary Schedules (1970-19777).
box 2,280, folder 16
box 2,229, folder 1-3, box 2,249, folder 1-4, box 2,275, folder 1-2, box 2,248, folder 3-4, box 2,274, folder 3
Clerks 1935 August 26-1990 November 19
Memoranda and Standing Committee Communications concerning equipment, salaries and
duties of clerical positions.
Box 2,229: (1935-1977).
Box 2,248: (1977-1982).
Box 2,249: Reports on reserve clerical positions and clerical norms
(1935-1970).
Box 2,274: Bulletins regarding clerical norms for elementary schools and community
adult schools (1983-1989).
Box 2,275: Standing Committee Reports concerning the Clerical Series
(1982-1990).
box 2,274, folder 5
box 2,274, folder 6, box 2,278, folder 11
box 2,274, folder 8
box 2,274, folder 7
box 2,274, folder 9, 14, box 2,239
Custodians 1925 January 26-1992 July 29
Custodial and Gardening Standards Report of a Study, Bulletins on custodial duties,
Los Angeles Times article on five employees who signed a recording contract with
Capitol Records as "The Custodians," correspondence requesting custodians and
protesting cutbacks, Custodial Standards and Allotments Report, Building and Grounds
Worker class description and Personnel and Schools Committee Reports regarding
approval of Custodial and Ground Operations Series classification actions.
box 2,273, folder 6
box 2,273, folder 7
box 2,274, folder 1
box 2,274, folder 2
box 2,275, folder 9
box 2,228, folder 1-2, box 2,275, folder 11
box 2,240, box 2,249, folder 5-13, box 2,276, folder 2-4, box 2,278, folder 5
Employment 1934 November 8-1993 January 13
Box 2,240: Amendments of Board Rules concerning areas such as assignment,
promotion, seniority and transfers and Engineers and Architects Association
correspondence in opposition to "rating-in" employees (1935-1977).
Box 2,249: Copies of Board Rules concerning employment applications,
fingerprinting, oath of allegiance, loyalty affirmation, reemployment, disability
and retirement. Materials also include new employee information booklets
(1934-1976).
Box 2,276: Inter-office correspondence concerning unacceptable employment
practices, Bulletins regarding employment of the handicapped and of student
integration helpers, copy of revision to the Affirmative Action Program and Equal
Opportunity Policy for District personnel, procedures pertaining to layoff and
reemployment and employment of retired personnel (1980-1993).
Box 2,278: Copy of notes from the Superintendent's Advisory Council concerning
credit information requested from the Personnel Division and a Personnel Division
Communication regarding letters of recommendation for personnel (1937-1951).
box 2,276, folder 8-9, box 2,228, folder 3-4
box 2,276, folder 1
box 2,277, folder 1
box 2,277, folder 2
box 2,277, folder 3
box 2,277, folder 4
box 2,277, folder 5-6
box 2,277, folder 7
box 2,278, folder 1
box 2,263-2,265, box 2,241-2,246, box 2,271
Hearings 1946-1990
Personnel Division correspondence and copies of Hearing Officer decisions
concerning cases of employee appeals for matters such as discipline, suspension and
dismissal.
Box 2,241-2,246: Files are alphabetically organized by employee's last name and
then arranged chronologically.
Box 2,241: A-C (1949-1984).
Box 2,242: D-G (1946-1984).
Box 2,243: H-K (1947-1984).
Box 2,244: L-O Includes a letter from the Mexican-American Legal Defense and
Educational Fund (MALDEF) alleging discrimination against Mexican-Americans in
employment and hiring (1948-1984).
Box 2,245: P-S (1952-1984).
Box 2,246: T-Z (1953-1984).
Box 2,263-2,265 and 2,270: Files are organized chronologically.
Box 2,263: (1985-1987).
Box 2,264: (1987-1988).
Box 2,265: (1988-1990).
Box 2,271: General Investigations file (1953-1984) and Hearings files
(1990-1991).
box 2,278, folder 2-3
box 2,252, folder 5-6
box 2,278, folder 4
box 2,278, folder 6-8
box 2,278, folder 9
box 2,278, folder 10
box 2,238
Investigations 1943-1964
Box 2,238: Informal Board meeting notes on Warehouse Investigation, black and white
photos of warehouse supplies, Report Upon Special Studies of Warehousing of Supplies
and Equipment, individual files for warehouse employees under investigation which
include Personnel Division dismissals, Personnel Commission Guide on Discipline,
Board's Report on Police Investigation and Peremptory Writ of Mandate for Mary T.
Ahlstedt v. Board (1943-1964).
box 2,278, folder 12
Labor Action 1980 June 11-1980 June 23
Copies of Personnel Commission Rules concerning "Concerted Labor Action" which is
defined as, "Any strike, picketing, sickout, slow-down, stoppage or other refusal by
employees, individually or collectively, in connection with a labor dispute, to
perform the services for which they are employed."
box 2,276, folder 5-7, box 2,229, folder 4, box 2,248, folder 1-2, box 2,267, box 2,247, box 2,269, folder 1-2
Layoffs, Suspensions and Dismissals 1934 August 22-2000 January 11
Procedures for layoff, suspension and dismissal of classified employees,
correspondence concerning summer layoffs and amendments to Personnel Commission
Rules.
Box 2,229: (1967-1975).
Box 2,247: (1934-1979).
Box 2,248: (1979-1982).
Box 2,267: (1982-1987).
Box 2,269: (1987-1989).
Box 2,276: (1989-2000).
box 2,252, folder 7
box 2,252, folder 1-4, box 2,279, folder 1-12, box 2,251, box 2,278, folder 13
box 2,279, folder 13
box 2,279, folder 15-17
box 2,279, folder 18
box 2,279, folder 19
Merit System 1948 June 1-1982 February 1
box 2,280, folder 1
box 2,280, folder 2
box 2,280, folder 3
box 2,280, folder 4-5, box 2,281, folder 1
box 2,280, folder 6-8
box 2,280, folder 9-11, box 2,230-2,231, box 2,250
Overtime Reports and Rates 1938 March 30-1992 June 15
box 2,280, folder 12
box 2,252, folder 8
box 2,280, folder 14
box 2,280, folder 13
box 2,280, folder 15
box 2,281, folder 2
box 2,281, folder 3
box 2,281, folder 4
box 2,281, folder 5
box 2,281, folder 6
box 2,281, folder 7
box 2,281, folder 8
box 2,281, folder 9
box 2,281, folder 11
box 2,281, folder 10
box 2,281, folder 12
box 2,254, box 2,259, folder 1-5, box 2,257, box 2,258, folder 1-4, box 2,237, box 2,281, folder 13, box 2,256, folder 24-27, box 2,269, folder 3-5
Salary 1937 November 18-1996 June 3
Salary schedules, recommendations, policies rates, adjustments, surveys and
correspondence concerning cost of living increases.
Box 2,237: (1965-1969).
Box 2,254: (1937-1980).
Box 2,256: (1961-1971).
Box 2,257: (1971-1974).
Box 2,258: (1974-1976).
Box 2,259: (1976-1979).
Box 2,269: (1979-1987).
Box 2,281: (1987-1996).
box 2,259, folder 6, box 2,232-2,234, box 2,256, folder 28, box 2,258, folder 5-6
Salary Schedule 1937-1979
box 2,256, folder 1-23, box 2,255, box 2,270, folder 1
Salary Survey 1943 November 29-1976 March 15
box 2,283, folder 1
box 2,282, folder 3
box 2,252, folder 9-10
box 2,283, folder 2
box 2,283, folder 4
box 2,283, folder 5
box 2,283, folder 3
box 2,274, folder 10
box 2,283, folder 6
Strikes 1970 April 23-1993 February 18
Standing Committee Communications and correspondence concerning classified strikes.
Materials include a California School Employees Association "Field Report" entitled
Classified Employees' Rights During Teachers' Strike and a District pamphlet,
Questions and Answers Related to the Teachers' Work Stoppage.
box 2,283, folder 7
box 2,283, folder 8
box 2,283, folder 9
box 2,283, folder 10
box 2,283, folder 11
box 2,283, folder 12
box 2,283, folder 13
box 2,283, folder 14
box 2,253, folder 5-8, box 2,283, folder 15-16
box 2,284, folder 1
box 2,284, folder 2-3, box 2,253, folder 1-2
box 2,284, folder 4
box 2,253, folder 3-4
Watchman 1938 November 16-1968 May 27
box 2,284, folder 5
Teacher Integration Unit 1963, 1975-2000
Personnel records that contained personally identifiable information were shredded to
protect the privacy of the employees.
The Teacher Integration Unit's (T.I.U.) functions and objectives were directly
related to maintaining racial/ethnic balance at all District schools as part of the
Teacher Integration Program required by the Office for Civil Rights. T.I.U. Director
Robert E. Searle was responsible for the development and general implementation of a
staff integration plan pursuant to directions from the Superintendent of the Los
Angeles Unified School District. Searle's responsibilities included assisting in
planning the teacher integration program for the L.A.U.S.D., coordinating the
activities of the various divisions which implement portions of the policy, evaluating
results of the program, and monitoring implementation of the program.
The Teacher Integration Unit (T.I.U.) records are arranged according to the existing
order of T.I.U. Director Robert E. Searle's file cabinets, organized by record
type.
box 2,672-2,673, box 2,674, folder 1-2
School Profile Reports 1976 February-1981 March 3
These reports are accompanied by Staff Integration Profile Reports which list
numbers of minorities (Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian) assigned to each
school and center.
Box 2,672: Profile reports include those organized by Areas, Children's Centers,
and Continuation High Schools.
Box 2,673: Regular K-12 profiles and staff integration compliance reports.
Box 2,674: Regular K-12 profiles divided by Area.
box 2,675-2,681, box 2,674, folder 3-9
OCR Reports 1976-1981
The following boxes contain reports generated by the Teacher Integration Unit
(T.I.U.) as required by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
Box 2,674: Faculty Balance Reports for Special Education, Children's Centers,
Elementary, Secondary Schools, and Area 1 Schools. The Elementary, Secondary, and
Area 1 folders also include School Roster Reports as required by the OCR.
Box 2,675: Completed OCR Faculty Balance and School Roster Reports for Area 1, Area
2, and Area 3.
Box 2,676: Completed OCR Faculty Balance and School Roster Reports for Area 4, Area
5, and Area 6.
Box 2,677: Completed OCR Faculty Balance Reports for Area 6, Area 7, Children's
Centers, and Continuation Schools. The Children's Center folder is divided by region
and includes School Roster Reports.
Box 2,678: OCR Faculty Balance Reports and School Roster Reports for Area 8, Area
9, and Area 10.
Box 2,679-2,680: OCR Faculty Balance Reports and School Roster Reports for Special
Education, Continuation Schools (Opportunity Schools) and Areas 1-10. Box 2,680 also
contains School Profiles for Special Education, Branch Sites, and Branch Site
Positions lists.
Box 2,681: School Profiles for Regular Schools and Special Schools. The "Law Suits
- Staff Integration" folder includes historical background concerning the formation
of the T.I.U.
box 2,682-2,686, box 2,687, folder 1
Integration Reports 1975-1983
Box 2,682: Reports include the following: A Statement of Goals, MAXI I Practicum
Report, Conference on Elementary School Problems in Large Cities Report, UTLA Staff
Integration, Racial and Ethnic Survey, A History of Integration, Integrated
Educational Excellence Through Choice, and Plans for the Integration of Pupils in
the Los Angeles Unified School District (Volumes I and II).
Box 2,683: Plan for the Integration of Pupils in the Los Angeles Unified School
District Volume III, Report of Progress in Planning and Preparation for the
Implementation of Plan for the Integration of Pupils Volumes I-III, Transiency and
Stability in the Los Angeles Unified School District, Lau Year End Report,
Integrated Educational Excellence Through Choice Volume I, and Civil Rights
Technical Assistance and Training Programs.
Box 2,684: Integrated Educational Excellence Through Choice Volumes III-VI.
Box 2,685: Integrated Educational Excellence Through Choice Volume VII, Program for
Racially Isolated Minority Schools (RIMS) Implementation Progress, RIMS Volume I,
Lau Midyear Report, Education/Legislation 1980, and Lau Year-End Report.
Box 2,686: Plan for Desegregation and Language Census Report Volumes I-II.
Box 2,687: School Handbook for Student Integration.
box 2,687, folder 2-4, box 2,688
box 2,689-2,703, box 2,704, folder 1-2
Lau Files 1977-1983
2,689: Folders include Lau summaries, Comparison of LEP students by Area, Division
of Integration Bulletin, Years of Experience by Location Summary, Lau Survey forms,
and Lau Plan compliance problems.
2,690: Lau survey forms, Bilingual credential printouts, and lists of certificated
employees with bilingual credentials.
2,691: Letters of resolution, roster updates, school profile reports, UCTP BCTP
Agreement, Census data, surveys, and bilingual waivers.
2,692: Lau compliance problems, school profile reports, Bilingual Classroom Teacher
Program, Comparison of LEP pupils by area, Lau surveys, Lau summary tables, and
letters sent to OCR.
2,693: Bilingual staff printouts.
2,694-2,698: Hopper Bilingual Staff Reports include RIMS and Non-RIMS schools,
Bilingual Staff by Area, Bilingual Teacher Needs reports, Teacher Language
Proficiency Reports, Limited English Speaking (LES) Reports, and Lau Report.
2,699-2,704: School profile reports, Non-RIMS and RIMS Pre History Reports, RIMS
Bilingual Reports, Non-RIMS Bilingual Reports, Children's Centers Reports, Special
Education Reports, Pair/Cluster enrollment by court area, Racial and Ethnic Survey
Data, and A127s received from Bilingual Office.
box 2,704, folder 3-4, box 2,705-2,709, box 2,710, folder 1-27
T.I.U. Case Files 1975-1979
Case files are arranged alphabetically by last name and include requests for
ethnicity identification change, Ethnic Review Committee work sheets, declaration of
individual ethnicity, affidavits regarding ethnicity change, family trees,
narratives, marriage certificates, birth certificates, baptism certificates,
photographs, United States certificates of naturalization, letters of support from
family, and United States Department of the Interior (DOI) land deeds issued to
First Nations peoples.
Box 2,704: Files include the following: History and Background of LAUSD Racial and
Ethnic Surveys, Ethnic Designation Change Requests, Ethnic Review Committee, and
Karen Fody transcript of Board presentation.
Box 2,705: Inactive files - No information regarding ethnicity, Teacher initiated
requests for change in racial or ethnic designation - background information,
Comparisons of Administrative School Staff Ethnicity with Pupil Ethnicity, and
T.I.U. Ethnicity Case Files A-G.
Box 2,706: T.I.U. Ethnicity Case Files G-W and Ab-Al. Administrative Consultant Dr.
Theron Arnett attached notes to secretary "Mary" (ms) concerning sending yes letters
to teachers for their ethnicity change requests. The following are some examples:
Folders 2 and 46 include "Si, Si" notes with graphics of smiley faces with sombreros
for Hispanic teachers. For Native American requests, folder 3 includes a "Send
you're an injun!" note next to a smiley face with a feather on top of its head,
folder 49 includes a "Me no paleface, me injun!" note with a similar smiley face
feather graphic, and folder 41 includes a sad face graphic with feathers next to
Arnett's "Ugh! No live in teepee" note to Mary for a denial letter. Folder 6, an
Asian American teacher case file, includes a "Send yes letter ah so!" note alongside
a graphic.
Box 2,707: T.I.U. Ethnicity Case Files An-Cl.
Box 2,708: T.I.U. Ethnicity Case Files Ch-Mi.
Box 2,709: T.I.U. Ethnicity Case Files Mi-St.
Box 2,710: T.I.U. Ethnicity Case Files St-Yo and an Ethnic Review Committee
folder.
box 2,723, folder 1-3, box 2,711-2,722, box 2710, folder 28
Return Rights Files 1978-1984
Box 2,710: Continuous Service Transfer Program correspondence.
Boxes 2,711-2,712: Return Rights files for the Voluntary Staff Integration Program
(VSIP), the Urban Classroom Teacher Program (UCTP), and the Bilingual Classroom
Teacher Program (BCTP). Box 2,711 includes the T.I.U.'s Synopsis of Racial and
Ethnic Surveys (1965-1977).
Box 2,713: T.I.U. grievances, UCTP bilingual student data, and three folders
concerning the Crawford lawsuit.
Boxes 2,714-2,717: T.I.U. grievances concerning mandatory assignments.
Boxes 2,717-2,718: Return Rights notifications.
Box 2,719: Return Rights letters, memos, and forms.
Box 2,720: Return Rights list and the following folders: Voluntary, Return to Area,
and Return to Former School.
Box 2,721: Box contains the following folders: Return Rights Defer for One Year, No
Wish to Return, Defer for Two Years, Wish to Delay, and Wish to Remain.
Box 2,722: Box contains the following folders: Wish to Return to Home School, Wish
to Return to Field Service Center, Volunteer Transferees, No Wish to Return, Back to
School, and Back to Area.
Box 2,723: Return Rights folders include: Lists, Wish to Delay, and Ineligible.
box 2,732, folder 1-2, box 2,724-2,731, box 2,723, folder 4-5
OCR Correspondence 1963, 1976-1980
Box 2,723: Staff integration interim reports, Staff integration development
documents, and Children's Centers profiles.
Box 2,724: Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity,
Education/Legislation reports, Permits With Transportation (PWT) reports, and
Crawford reports.
Boxes 2,725-2,729: OCR correspondence and TIU subject files. Subject files include
Board Member Reverend Lewis P. Bohler, Jr., Bus Stop, collective bargaining,
memoranda teacher integration, and overview of staff integration program.
Boxes 2,730-2,732: OCR correspondence, staff integration reports, OCR reports, and
Crawford Decision Final Order.
box 2,736, folder 1, box 2,732, folder 3, box 2,733-2,735
box 2,736, folder 2-3, box 2,741, folder 1-3, box 2,737-2,740
box 2,742-2,753, box 2,754, folder 1-3, box 2,741, folder 4-8
Crawford 1977-1982
Boxes 2,741-2,744: Court area changes, court area summaries, court orders,
injunctions, declarations, expert reports, decisions, partial desegregation plan,
and depositions.
Boxes 2,745-2,748: RIMS exhibits, court experts files, RIMS pretrial files, school
profiles, budget files, contempt files, integration charts, testimonies, U.S.
Supreme Court denial, Egly replacements, Robert E. Searle declaration, Pineda
stipulation, final desegregation plan, and California Supreme Court file.
Boxes 2,749-2,751: Crawford chronology, writs, RIMS order, Magnets, Implementation
order, response to plan, court exhibits, court decisions, Twenty-two questions,
final order, court reports, court orders requirements, objection to final order, and
intended order.
Boxes 2,752-2,754: OC Master Plan, Robert E. Searle testimony, RIMS hearings,
referee's reports, Crawford decision, Minute Order original, Crawford v. Board of
Education historical data, Crawford chronology, and Crawford case deposition of
Robert E. Searle.
box 2,758, folder 1-2, box 2,755-2,757, box 2,754, folder 4
Pairs/Clusters Court Exhibits 1979-1981
box 2,758, folder 3, box 2,759-2,763
RIMS/EIS Court Exhibits 1977-1981
Language of Material: English.
Box 2,758: RIMS print-outs.
Boxes 2,759-2,763: Files for the following: EIS, enrollment, BCTP, general,
hearings, lists, staffing, certificated personnel distribution by sex and ethnicity,
integration program evaluation, staff profiles, bilingual EIS teachers, reports, and
Pairs/Clusters individual school plans.
box 2,772, folder 1-7, box 2,764-2,771
RIMS Court Exhibits 1975-1982
Language of Material: English.
Boxes 2,764-2,768: File titles include the following: RIMS Minute Order, programs
for race relations, youth services, outdoor education, guidelines for instruction,
secondary instructional program, elementary school curriculum, parent participation,
integrated experiences, pupil suspension/expulsion, student body finance, and
integration. Publications include the following titles: Education for the People, A
Statement of Goals, and School = Community Participation in Determining School
Effectiveness, and We Tried It We Liked It: Promising Practices.
Boxes 2,769-2,771: RIMS secondary instruction program reports include 1980
enrollments with no flight, bilingual teachers, and schools listed as having fifty
percent or more minority enrollment.
Box 2,772: Reports include the following: School Volunteer and Tutorial Programs,
Current Backlog of Major Maintenance Needs, RIMS Implementation Progress, Parent
Participation and Education, Compensatory Education, Parent Involvement and Parent
Education in Secondary Schools, and Title I and the Integration Program.
box 2,777, folder 1-2, box 2,772, folder 8-9, box 2,773-2,776
RIMS Volumes 1980 January, April, July
Language of Material: English.
These Volumes comprise the Los Angeles City Board of Education Initial Response to
the Minute Order of August 21, 1979.
Box 2,772: Volume I Background, Methods, Summaries, and Recommendations.
Box 2,773: Volume II Pilot Study and Volume III RIMS Study.
Box 2,774: Volume IV Exhibits to the RIMS Study, Volume V Request for Court
Approval of Proposed Programs, and Volume VII Programs Recommended for
Implementation.
Boxes 2,775-2,777: RIMS data files and RIMS Status Report.
box 2,777, folder 3, box 2,778-2,786, box 2,787, folder 1-3
Research and Evaluation Branch Reports 1981-1986, 1989-1995, 1998, 2000
Language of Material: English.
Box 2,777: Predominantly Hispanic, Black, Asian and Other Non-Anglo (PHBAO)
Instruments, 1981-1982.
Box 2,778: Curriculum Alignment Guide, Integration Evaluation Reports, Integration
Programs Progress Report, Report on the District Testing Program, Integration
Evaluation Reports Voluntary Integration Programs, Preventing Teacher Dropout, and
Three Surveys of Staff and Parent Opinions About the LAUSD Instructional
Program.
Box 2,779: School Readiness Language Development Program: A Pre-Kindergarten
Project for RIMS, Historical Evaluation Integration Programs, Permits With
Transportation (PWT) Substudy, Retention Patterns in the LAUSD, Office of Student
Integration Services Appendices Volume II, and Report on LAUSD Integration
Programs.
Box 2,780: Nominations of Successful Programs to Alleviate Court-Identified Harms,
Transiency and Stability in the Los Angeles Unified School District, Evaluation of
the Accelerating Home Education and Development (Ahead) Program, PHBAO Programs, and
Integration Evaluation Reports: Magnets, Permits With Transportation and Continued
Integration, and Year-Round Schools Programs.
Boxes 2,781-2,784: Magnet Schools Assistance Program, Integration Evaluation
Reports: Appendices, Evaluation of Selected Schools in the Program Integrated
Educational Excellence Through Choice, and New Magnet Programs and Updating Existing
Magnet Specialty Resources.
Boxes 2,785-2,787: Integration Evaluation Reports: Executive Summaries and
Evaluation Designs, Ethnic Survey Reports, Ten Schools Program Reports, and
Evaluation Reports of PHBAO Programs.
box 2,787, folder 4, box 2,788-2,792
McKinny Process 1987-1990
Language of Material: English.
These records relate to the District's implementation of the McKinny process
required by McKinny v. Board of Trustees.
Box 2,787: Written Reactions of Advisory Councils Sending and Receiving
Schools.
Box 2,788-2,792: Original McKinny binder, McKinny Summary, McKinny Analysis,
Summary of Findings Regarding the Integrated Status of the Proposed 70:30 Schools,
Schools to be Studies Through McKinny Process, Ten Schools Program Reading
Observation Case Studies, Priority Housing Program McKinny Analysis, McKinny
Progress Report, and Presentations of Findings and Conclusions of the 1988-1989
McKinny Analysis.
Index Cards circa 1875-1997
The bulk of the index cards include information and keywords referenced in the Board
Reports. These were used by the District's File Unit as indices and provide explanations
of keywords, resolutions, rules ratified or rescinded. The cards cross-reference the
Board Reports by date and page number and are arranged alphabetically by subject.