LAUSD's Failed School Planning Efforts

The Planning Report presents an excerpt from KCRW's Which Way L.A.? with key players arguing both sides of this $200 million fiasco.

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August 31, 2000, 7:00 AM PDT

By Ali Valenzuela


With LAUSD schools tragically 85,000 seats/desks short and the School Board's myopic insistant on litigation rather than collaboration, the influential Proposition BB Bond Oversight Committee recently voted unanimously to approve a resolution urging the LAUSD to finish environmental studies of Belmont and definitively answer the question: Is Belmont safe? TPR presents an excerpt from KCRW's Which Way L.A.? with key players arguing both sides of this $200 million fiasco.

Thanks to Ali Valenzuela

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