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The largest public school system in California is the Los Angeles Unified School District. It is the second largest in the country, after the New York City system. In 2005, the District served over 710,000 students, and employed more than 74,000. After the LA country government, the school system is the largest employer.

The whole city of Los Angeles and portions of several nearby cities are served by the District. It even has its own police department. Significantly, if the school system was a Fortune 500 company, it would rank at around 250. It has almost as many buses as the LA Transportation Authority. Over 500,000 meals per day are proffered in school cafeterias.

The system is known for overcrowded schools, poor maintenance and incompetent administration. The graduation rates are not very high either, leading to hordes virtually unemployable young people flooding the local job market. In addition, the District has long been negatively known for its laden bureaucracy. Many attempts to reform the system have been implemented, but none very.

The festering school dropout issue has been at the heart of school system reform talks for quite some time. A recent study performed by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University postulated that only about 45 percent of LA students were matriculating in four years.

Lastly, a Washington, D.C. based public policy think tank estimated that one year's class of high school dropouts ultimately costs California over 38 billion dollars in lost wages, taxes and productivity over the former student's lifetimes.

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Matt Paolini is a business analyst for CityBook.com, the family-safe online yellow pages, which carries an extensive directory regarding Los Angeles higher education.

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