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The Los Angeles City Council should promote the breakup of the huge Los Angeles Unified School District, two San Fernando Valley-based councilmen said Friday, even as a powerful state legislator from the Valley warned that such a task could take many years.
The comments by Councilmen Hal Bernson and Joel Wachs and Sen. David A. Roberti (D-Van Nuys) reflected the growing support by Valley politicians for a movement to secede from the Los Angeles district and establish a separate Valley district.
Roberti, the state Senate leader, told a news conference that breaking up the Los Angeles district would be his top priority during the remaining two years of his career in the Legislature.
"I'm going to try to get this done in two years," Roberti said, but he added that the challenge is so much bigger than he envisioned that it may have to be completed by a legislator who will remain in office after Roberti leaves.
Roberti, who until last June represented a Hollywood-based district, now represents a district based in Van Nuys and has become the chief Senate backer of the move to break up the sprawling Los Angeles school district. The district is so vast that it is...