Senator Tom Hayden collection on Belmont Learning Complex Investigation, LAUSD, 1983-2002.

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Senator Tom Hayden collection on Belmont Learning Complex Investigation, LAUSD, 1983-2002.

Collection contains State Senator Tom Hayden's papers regarding the funding, construction, health and safety concerns, and investigations related to the Los Angeles Unified School District's Belmont Learning Center. Includes correspondence, memoranda, news articles, reports, architectural diagrams, and construction documents, as well as audio and video tapes of hearings and meetings of state and local entities. As part of the study of problems with Belmont, Hayden also collected information on other schools with problems related to on-site toxins: Jefferson Middle School, South Gate Middle and High Schools, Towne Avenue Elementary School, John Francis Polytechnic High School, Cahuenga Elementary School and Gratts Elementary School. The collection further includes information about the LAUSD's attempts to purchase from Donald Trump the site of the Ambassador Hotel for use as a high school, and documents pertaining to construction of an elementary school on a polluted site at the Playa Vista development in Marina del Rey.

43 ms boxes (21 linear feet) + 1 oversize box + 2 audio visual boxes + 2 mapcase drawers

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Hayden, Tommy, 1978-

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Political activist, author, and member of the California State Assembly (1982- ). From the description of Papers, 1956-1964. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34364875 ...

Los Angeles Unified School District

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Crawford et al. v. Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles et al. was a case in which the California Supreme Court ordered the Los Angeles Unified School District to formulate a feasible plan to desegregate its schools. In 1977 the LAUSD came up with a plan that was later deemed one of if not the most drastic plans of mandatory student reassignment in the nation. The board proposed a desegregation busing plan which would be implemented in 1978. In response to the proposal the group Bustop ...

Belmont Learning Complex (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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