LAUSD proposed eliminating a number of leased adult school sites citywide as a cost-cutting measure.  The district ratiionale was that schools should re-locate to district-owned facilities.  A good idea in theory, but it has been the district that for decades has refused to construct adult schools for the 400,000 students that annually attend adult ed classes.  Successive DACE administrators and school boards have chosen to lease rather than build, creating a legacy of lease costs for the district.

Student actions have resulted in successful renewals of the leases at the RAFU, Mid-Wilshire, the Korean-American Center, and Menlo sites.  Click below to view the following videos of students in action:

The protest at Menlo (Belmont):
ABC7 news clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2AtpnLH6Io
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyUfGjjsWl0
or
http://tinyurl.com/yj2fp94

LA Times article:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/03/adult-students-protest-potential-loss-of-picounion-campus.html