Click on the image to see all sizes of the map and detailed charts analyzing proposed park closures. The Governor has proposed closing 48 out of 278 priceless State Parks to save money. The proposal would close one out of every six state parks, to save just $9 million. Four counties with the greatest green [...]

View images of the 28 acre site of Griffith Park on the East Bank of the Los Angeles River in Atwater Village — which could be the Next Great Urban Park in Los Angeles. Central Service Yard Opportunity Site Reclaiming Griffith Park’s Lost Acreage for Public Enjoyment By Jeff Gardener and Bernadette Soter, Members Griffith [...]

PRESS RELEASE School Quality, State Leaders Get Bad Grades as Budget Showdown Looms Californians Want Schools Spared From Cuts But Resist Higher Taxes SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 30, 2008 — Californians rank jobs and the economy as their biggest worry, but they also see the quality of the public school system as a significant problem. [...]

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has documented that obesity among school children in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LASUD) has increased from 20.2% in 1999 to 26.1%in 2006, going from 1 in 5 children being obese to over 1 in 4. The percentage of overweight school children has generally been increasing [...]