By TARA PARKER-POPE

Published: February 23, 2009

The best way to improve children’s performance in the classroom may be to take them out of it.

Well

Should schools make recess and outdoor time [...]

From the Los Angeles Times
L.A. THEN AND NOW
Centinela Adobe, once the center of a 2,200-acre ranch, has been home to a Southern-born lawyer, a Scottish nobleman and the founder of Inglewood.
By Jean Merl
February 1, 2009
It has trembled through earthquakes, been caught in a land dispute between ranchers back in the days of Mexican rule and [...]

The undersigned diverse and growing alliance have submitted public comments to invest park funds to park poor and economically poor communities.
Park funds should be allocated based on need, not greed. Under a standard that targets communities with the greatest need first, need should be measured in terms of park poverty (less than 3 acres of [...]

State Lands board votes 2-1 against an oil company’s proposal to close four platforms, and in turn be allowed to drill new wells in state waters.
By Steve Chawkins
L.A. Times
January 30, 2009
Reporting from Santa Barbara — It was cast as an unprecedented compromise, a deal that would allow a Texas oil company to sink new wells off the Santa Barbara coast in [...]

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WE WON! DIVERSE ALLIES SAVED PANHE AND SAN ONOFRE, AND STOPPED THE TOLL ROAD!

Malibu Public Access for All

Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities Los Angeles City Council Highlights

Vista Hermosa Park Grand Opening

Keep State Parks Open for All!

SCAG Multiagency Effort to Improve Access to Parks and Recreation

Miguel Contreras Schools, Pools and [...]

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Dear Friends,
When Barack Obama took the podium for his victory speech on the night of November 4, 2008, he began with the grace, humility and inclusiveness that one hopes will be the hallmark of his presidency.  He began: “If there is anyone out there who [...]

Jim Lafferty interviews NRDC’s Staff Attorney Daman Nagami and The City Project’s President and Counsel Robert Garcia about the Baldwin Hills lawsuits seeking to improve the environmental impact report and oil field regulations.
Listen to the complete December 4, 2008, KPFK podcast by clicking here.
Listen to the Baldwin Hills highlights by clicking here.
Learn more at www.greaterbaldwinhillsalliance.org [...]

L.A. County Plan for Expanded Urban Oil Drilling Draws Fire
By Peter B. Matuszak
Daily Journal Staff Writer
peter_matuszak@dailyjournal.com
www.dailyjournal.com/law
December 1, 2008
LOS ANGELES – Environmentalists and community groups have filed three lawsuits against a county-approved plan to expand oil drilling in the heart of South Los Angeles.
The county Board of Supervisors in October gave the go-ahead to Houston-based Plains [...]

Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles and The City Project today filed a lawsuit against the County of Los Angeles to protect people, homes, and parklands in the Baldwin Hills more than oil company profits. The suit challenges the County’s environmental impact report and oil drilling regulations covering the oil field adjoining the Baldwin [...]

The image, created at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and simply reproduced here, does not represent The City Project’s analyses of data for the Baldwin Hills.  The purpose of teaching the seminar is so Harvard gets it right!  Veritas, indeed.  Robert Garcia, Stanford ‘74, ‘78L.