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[Editor’s Note: Living in Los Angeles, which has had the nation’s worst traffic jams for 19 consecutive years, exasperates Mr. Rosebrock, a Westside entrepreneur. He is equally frustrated with what he says are the too-facile solutions suggested by Los Angeles politicians. His opening essay last Friday, Nov. 30, was provocatively headlined “Group Vehicle Just a Code Name for Socialized Transportation.” When we left him, he was discussing a newspaper story from last week.]

California's average base revenue limit funding per Average Daily Attendance for 2007-08 is a complicated formula based on each student's attendance in his or her district:

Elementary districts receive $5,567; high school districts, $6,690, and unified school districts receive $5,821.

The amount most districts actually receive either is above or below these averages.

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Say goodbye to the personal car and welcome to the “Socialist Republic of Los Angeles.”

Have you noticed how certain politicians keep pressuring us to give up the freedom and independence of our personal cars in order to start riding public buses, trolley cars and subways?

­ [Editor’s Note: Unsatisfied by the City Council’s announcement on Monday night that spot enforcement of safety equipment violations at the new Skateboard Park had been instituted by the Police Dept., community activist Cary Anderson says stronger, more visible enforcement is necessary.]

The city’s method of operation is to say one thing and to do another. Bill LaPointe, the director of the Parks and Recreation Dept., has proven that.

Does the Police Dept. enforce motorcycle safety laws? They probably do.

[Editor’s Note: In email correspondence yesterday, citizen/transportation activist Damien Goodmon sought answers to pressing questions about the Expo Light Rail project from two key officials, Rick Thorpe, chief officer of the Expo Construction Authority, and County Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke. Mr. Goodmon’s first email was timed at 11:03 a.m., his second at 5 p.m. Mr. Thorpe’s response was marked at 6:28 p.m.]

At the most recent School Board meeting on Nov. 13, a regular enrollment report was presented by the School District. For the practiced eye, the numbers demonstrate the challenges of the next six years at least.

Current enrollment, kindergarten through 12th grade, is 6,564 students. But a breakdown by grade illustrates the issues:

For the past 19 years, Los Angeles has had the worst traffic congestion in the nation.

It will continue to get worse before it gets better, unless we change our way of thinking.

Subsequently, we have the choice of moving Los Angeles forward into the 21st century with a new and efficient mass transit system or continuing to go backward with the same old methods that created this unbearable gridlock?

During this latest School Board campaign, which ends with today’s election, all five candidates have expressed their opposition to the transfer of students from Ladera Heights.

Some of the candidates have soap-boxed the popular belief that there are too many outside-permits being granted by our School District, that this is the major cause of the perceived over-crowding at some of our schools.

I submit this as a clarification of Ari Noonan’s commentary yesterday, “Permit Me to Say, Permits Dilemma Is Not Going Anywhere.”

The topic of “Permits” is one that has resurfaced during every election cycle I can recall in the 15 years I’ve been involved with our Culver City schools.

Periodically, the topic recurs in between elections as well. The School District has held presentations on the permit process at least three times I can recall in the past six to eight years during their twice monthly meetings.

[Editor’s Note: Here is the third, latest and longest email sent this week by Coach Patrick Moran to 350 members of the Edge Swim Club community following the City Council’s termination of a facilities agreement with Mr. Moran and the Edge team. Earlier stories: “Before Evicting Coach, Swim Team, Council Votes ‘for the People’,” Oct. 23; “Moran’s Answer to Council’s Ouster of His Edge Swim Team,” Oct. 29; “On Way Out (?), Moran Rages at Corlin and Counsels His Team,” Oct. 30.]