 However, these did not form a system in the modern sense, in that each normal school had its own board of trustees and all were governed independently from one another.In 1919, the State Normal School at Los Angeles became the Southern Branch of the University of California; in 1927, it became the University of California at Los Angeles (the "at" was later replaced with a comma in 1958).In May 1921, the legislature enacted a comprehensive reform package for the state's educational system, which went into effect that July.