The secession movement shows no sign of ending anytime soon.
Malibu has been trying to secede for decades. Parents there say their children get short shrift from Santa Monica, which says losing Malibu would be financially devastating.
Malibu’s latest petition to secede from the school district began in 2015. Since then, the city and the district have negotiated, broken off negotiations and tried to sort out differences again. They have come before the county committee nearly a dozen times. The Saturday vote did not bring a resolution, but opens more rounds of hearing, meetings and reports.
“Sadly there is a continuing precedent of systemic and structural discrimination in this country that has even touched the educational system in the form of rich, wealthy, predominantly white communities peeling themselves away from bigger and more ethnically diverse districts,” SMMUSD Superintendent Ben Drati said during the Saturday hearing.
Then, if the state board approves the petition, the decision on whether Malibu can split off and form its own school district will go to a public vote.
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