Item 30 - Uncodified Ordinance Amending the List of Parcels

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Education As described above, the Fair Housing Task Force determines education scores based on math and reading proficiency, high school graduation rates, and student poverty rates. See Table 8 for the complete list of TCAC Opportunity Map domains and indicators. Regional Trend As presented in Table 9, White Orange County communities are located closest to the highest quality school systems, and Hispanic communities are typically located near lower quality school systems. TCAC Opportunity Map education scores for the region are shown in Figure 43. The central county areas, namely the cities of Santa Ana, Garden Grove, Anaheim, and Stanton, have the highest concentration of tracts with education scores in the lowest percentile. There is also a concentration of tracts with low education scores in Costa Mesa and some scattered tracts in Westminster and Huntington Beach. Coastal communities and areas near Irvine and the unincorporated community of North Tustin have the highest education scores. Local Trend Figure 43 shows TCAC education scores for Santa Ana tracts. Tracts in Santa Ana generally received education scores consistent with economic scores discussed above. A majority of the residential tracts in the city scored in the lowest quartile (scores below 0.25), while the northwestern corner of the city, where tracts received higher economic opportunity scores, only scored slightly better, with education scores in the second lowest education score quartile. However, tracts along the western city boundary were also slightly better, with scores in the second lowest education quartile and one tract scoring in the second highest quartile (scores of 0.50 to 0.75), which is the highest scoring tract in the city. According to the City's Neighborhood Initiatives and Environmental Services team, community members have continually expressed that two primary factors directly affect their children's ability to learn and excel in school —overcrowding and lack of youth -targeted community spaces and programs. Overcrowding was cited as affecting youth education through there not being the physical space needed within the home for a child to concentrate and do their work. Often unpermitted subdivisions of common living areas in units are constructed to accommodate additional family members, leaving little to no space for a child to sit and study. Community members expressed that the lack of community spaces and programs further put those children that reside in overcrowded households at a disadvantage by not providing spaces where youth can study and engage in enrichment programs. According to residents, neighborhoods such as Cedar Evergreen, Townsend-Raitt, and Willard, where there is a strong gang presence, would benefit from providing spaces for youth, after -school programs, and strategies to keep students from dropping out. The correlation between overcrowding and less positive education outcomes that was voiced by the community can be observed when comparing Figure 43 and Figure 68. The areas with less positive education outcome scores in Santa Ana are generally the same areas that have higher percentages of overcrowded households. Similarly, the tracts in the northwestern corner of the city and tracts along the western boundary, where education outcome scores are higher, are the same tracts where there are less overcrowded households.