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Dear Sirs and Madams: We have recently learned that, due to budget cuts, the District intends to cut the magnet coordinators to half-time at the Portola Highly Gifted Middle School Magnet and North Hollywood Highly Gifted High School Magnet. This is a terrible mistake. The Highly Gifted Magnet program provides an education to meet the special needs of highly gifted students. Many of our children travel some distance to obtain this specialized education, fulfilling the very purpose of the Office of Integration: to integrate our schools and provide access to an advanced curriculum to highly gifted students of all ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds. The Highly Gifted Magnet classes are some of the most diverse in this city. Many families cannot afford private school to educate their precocious children. Reducing the magnet coordinators at Portola and North Hollywood HG Magnets to half-time would be devastating to these programs. The coordinators serve vital functions for our children, including serving as dean, counselor, and curriculum coordinator for these specialized programs. Our children, while not labeled “special needs” by LAUSD, are indeed very special (a child with a 99.9% IQ score is 1 in 1000 in the population!) and do require additional educational attention. What is most troubling to us is that LAUSD is willing to dismantle its most successful programs and highest performers! The District regularly touts the success of North Hollywood HG Magnets students in various national contests. Portola HG Magnet is a “model of excellent” middle school and is the top rated magnet middle school/center in LAUSD in terms of percentage of students performing at proficient or advanced on state tests. Both programs are the only highly gifted magnets for middle and high school in the entire LAUSD. We do not understand why you would cut our coordinators and yet allow those in other gifted or non-gifted schools (including some of the poorest performers!) to remain full-time. Is this how LAUSD rewards success? Is LAUSD really going to drive away its best and brightest??? The likelihood that LAUSD will lose these precious children forever to private, charter, and home schools is increased and the future of the entire LAUSD HG program put in jeopardy. These highly gifted programs should be the “crown jewels” of the LAUSD to show what public school education can still do. These children raise test scores and integrate schools. Please do not reduce Highly Gifted Magnet coordinators to half-time. We strongly encourage you to rethink this cut. 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