Plan To Lop Off 200,000 Students From L.A. Unveiled

One of several groups seeking to secede from the Los Angeles Unified School District has unveiled a plan to create two new districts in the northern suburbs that would siphon nearly 200,000 students from the nation's second-largest school system.

The long-awaited plan to carve off the San Fernando Valley seeks to take advantage of a 1995 state law that lowered the political barriers to breaking up the massive 667,000-student district. ( "Bill To Make 'Breakup' of L.A. District Easier Clears," Aug. 2, 1995.)

The proposal unveiled this month by a group calling itself Finally Restoring Excellence in Education is the most ambitious of several separate plans to split off parts...