{"id":2055,"date":"2008-01-24T09:59:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T17:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:50:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T22:50:33","slug":"gran-salida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2055","title":{"rendered":"Gran Salida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mickey Kaus writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Since the fall, L.A.’s Unified School District has canceled plans to build 19 new schools and additions because the projected students haven’t materialized. Enrollment is down 7 percent from 2003. <\/strong>The L.A. Times<\/em> doesn’t even mention a decline or reversal of immigrant flows as a possible cause<\/a>, blaming only <\/p>\n

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years of declining birth rates and increasing housing prices that have pushed poor and working-class families out of many gentrified urban Los Angeles neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hmm. Housing prices haven’t really increased <\/em>since last fall, have they? But there has<\/em> been an anti-illegal crackdown (and a decline in construction jobs). Is the LAT<\/em> so committed to its ‘Latinos are the future’ line that it’s missing a major social and demographic development happening right under its nose?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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