CM PRESS # 788

SHARED GENES AND ETHNONATIONALISM
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ADDRESS VERIFICATION RESULTS AT INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS

The CM PRESS recently made a public information request to the NMUSD for details on how many students the district has lost as a result of students not being able to prove they live in the district.

Here's the response we received from Laura Boss at the NMUSD:

Please find the attached spreadsheet with the enrollment #’s you requested relative to address verification. The attached chart reflects enrollment as of June 2009 and currently enrolled students as of August 10, 2009. All enrollees have gone through the address verification process which continues daily both at the school sites and at the Student Services office.

We are currently approximately 900 students below our enrollment from June 2009. This is due to a number of factors including the Davis transition, the addition of grade levels being added at Costa Mesa feeder schools, and the ongoing address verification process.


SCHOOL 2009 June/ 14-Aug
ADAMS 525/ 431
ANDERSEN 488/ 464
CALIFORNIA 410/ 388
COLLEGE PARK 510/ 522
DAVIS 370/ 449
EASTBLUFF 369/ 316
HARBORVIEW 417/ 395
KAISER 655/ 586
KILLYBROOKE 428/ 344
LINCOLN 618/ 584
MARINERS 712/ 714
NEWPORT COAST 713/ 713
NEWPORT EL 410/ 397
NEWPORT HTS 573/ 563
PAULARINO 373/ 352
POMONA 407/ 419
REA 716/ 477
SONORA 483/ 499
VICTORIA 435/ 387
WHITTIER 648/664
WILSON 590/ 558
WOODLAND 472/ 426
CDM Middle 732/ 727
CM Middle 649/ 538
ENSIGN 1111/ 1036
TEWINKLE 654/ 665
CRC 66/ 0
CORONA DEL MAR 1487/ 1559
COSTA MESA 1093/ 1087
ESTANCIA 1264/ 1231
NEWPORT HARB. 2323/ 2354
BACK BAY 157/ 83
MIDDLE COLLEGE 77/ 33
EARLY COLLEGE 186/ 251
IND STUDY 56/ 37

GRAND TOTALS 21177/ 20249
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SO HOW'S THE DEINDUSTRIALIZATION OF CALIFORNIA GOING FOR YOU?

Unemployment now at 11.9% in the less than Golden State. LINK

Too many naifs bought all the talk back in the '80's about how we could send all our factories to other countries and California would be one big garden populated by former factory workers who had retrained to be bankers, etc.

The reality is that wealth is created when you make or grow something. Middlemen, agents and paper pushers perform valuable functions, but all they're doing is taking a cut off what someone else made or grew. Remove the makers and growers from the equation and all you have left are the middlemen, agents and various paper pushers who will soon find themselves out of work.
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GANG GRAFFITI IN MESA NORTH THIS MORNING

Unless the slums are removed, the gangs will always have safe harbors and habitats.

The graffiti is not the problem. It is just a symptom of the problem. Without the Fillmore slum, Mesa North would be one of the nicest neighborhoods in Costa Mesa. With the Fillmore slum, it will never improve.
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