LA's School District --Can They Build 'Em?
20 October 2000 - 9:00am
Consider the bleak picture: the Los Angeles Unified School District must create 85,000 new seats in the next five years.
An already shocking number of students spend over an hour each day being bused to school, and year-round scheduling is swiftly becoming the rule. Mott Smith, Special Projects Director for LAUSD and a former editor of TPR, is charged with facilitating innovative approaches for new school facilities, such as turnkey and joint-use developments. Can anyone from within LAUSD do it?
Source:
The Planning Report, October 18, 2000
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