The Beverly Hills school board is poised to end a program that allows nearly 500 out-of-district students to attend school in Beverly Hills on opportunity permits. Steep education cuts have left the school district paying more to the state in taxes than it receives for schooling non-resident students. Parents of permit-students are asking that their children be allowed to finish their educations where they started them – in Beverly Hills, rather than LAUSD, where more than a quarter of high school students drop out. Should students be allowed to attend public schools in a district where they do not live? Or is the Beverly Hills school board right to focus their resources on taxpaying residents only?
Guests:
Lisa Korbatov, Vice President, Beverly Hills School District
Steven Wasserman, “permit parent” with two children in the Beverly Hills School District
Sharon Wallin, President of the Irvine School Board which implemented a resident requirement last year