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ALTON TEAGUE, LA (KABC) — An online petition is asking for the city to cancel all classes at L.A. City College and move classes to other locations.The petition, started by local resident Mike Miller, has been signed by about 1,900 people. “I believe our public colleges are necessary, but they are no more necessary than our local schools, our public parks, and our public beaches, and we simply cannot afford to open them up to the whims of politicians who want to cut education budgets every time they get a job,” Miller wrote in an email.”When we are asked to give up something, we fight for it. But we cannot afford to give in to the demands of our public officials who are out to punish us for being successful,” he said.L.D. Anderson High School in Boyle Heights is no longer used in school-year science classes. The science teacher who taught this school in 2006 is a teacher now employed by the nearby City College of Los Angeles, which says on its website that this teacher was reassigned from that class to other classes. The school system in Boyle Heights also has decided to reduce its offerings to students because of the budget cuts.”The school system is being forced to reduce the number of science classes by 20 per cent, the same amount as we reduced our music courses,” a spokesman from Boyle Heights Unified School District said Monday afternoon.The school board is meeting in a special meeting today. The meeting will be held on the last day of the regular meeting, which starts at 5 p.m. tonight in the City College auditorium.”I feel very strongly about where I live and I want to make sure that my children are raised with as much of our culture as I possibly can,” said Mike Williams, a Boyle Heights resident. “I do not want to see our children’s education decimated because of the politics of the politicians.”KABC has learned that students attending classes at City College for next year are also being asked to move to other L.D. Anderson high schools. City officials said they made the decision based on a number of factors that are not publicly available