Los Angeles

Los Angeles

Los Angeles?

I am planning a trip to los angeles this summer. i have no idea what there is to do there. i wan do do fun enjoyable things like maybe surf, or sightsee. Does anyone know fun places to go, or fun things to do? or any good travel sights that can give me ideas? thank you so much!! =]

well let me start:
for the beach:

there is many but
the most famous one's are:

Santa Monica Pier - ( Santa Monica, CA) - It's a pier with shops, food games and a ferris wheel (during the summer it gets full.

Venice Beach - (in Venice, CA) - many shops along the strip, food beach.

And Malibu -( Malibu, CA) -mostly beach mostly celebrities and rich people living there but many people go there.

Hollywood and Highland:
It's the main place for tourist
in almost every corner there's
signs indicating you of celebrity maps (homes)
The Wax Museum, Ripley's is there it always full of people

www.hollywoodandhighland.com

There's to many to list but that's the main place.

I don't know how old you are but if you want to go to clubs
the places to go is Les Deux, GOA, Boulevard 3, Avalon etc.

This is the website for Les Deux and others:
www.dolcegroup.com

in all of these clubs you have to have bottle service or e-mail them to put your name on the list, unless you have connections.

Universal Studios is a great place but not much to do.
But if you go in the same place where Universal Studios
is at there's city walk it just astrip with a theater,bars,clubs,dinning.

www.citywalkhollywood.com

Well I could go on I live in Los Angeles county
google it or map it !! it will help you a lot. I grew up
here and I still have more to explore.

If you want to see celebrities they are not in the center of Hollywood they are mostly in West Hollywood, Beverly Hills

streets you can serch by are: Robertson Blvd., Sunset Blvd., Hollywood Blvd, Highland, Melrose Blvd, La Brea, Wilshire.

If you go downtown Los Angeles it's dirty but there's many beautiful buildings. You shoud goto little Tokyo and go int the Shabu Shabu house the wait is 1 or 2 hours and they close at 2pm and open at 6pm.

Well if you want more information
these are some Los Angeles based
websites:

www.citysearch.com
(click in Los Angeles)

www.yelp.com
(reviews)

localitesla.com
( the L.A. Scene clubs, bars etc.)

for theme parks: Disneyland, Knott's Berry Farm,Six Flags Magic Mountain ,Seaworld ( about an hour away from Los Angeles)

Hope this helps :]

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The Los Angeles Schools Bond Measure - Is It Needed?

On November 8th, the voters of who live in the Los Angeles schools district will be faced with their fourth proposition, called Measure Y. The $3.985 bond measure, which will be paid by property taxes, is for more planned expansion within the Los Angeles schools, allowing them to add another 25 elementary schools to the current list of 160 schools that are scheduled to be constructed by year 2012. Some of the money also is slated for other needs, such as new school buses, repairs and charter schools.

The other three bond measures were passed for Los Angeles schools new construction and repairs that were long overdue. Classrooms were literally falling apart, and classes were excessively overcrowded with year-round schedules for many schools. The previously passed measures underwrote the current 160 schools on the list for construction.

Many people, however, are asking if this fourth measure is truly needed. According to the Los Angeles Daily News, the traditional Los Angeles schools are slowly but steadily losing students from their rolls. Since the 2002-2003 school year, the traditional Los Angeles schools have lost 4,471 students. According to Los Angeles schools officials, they expect another 4,304 to be dropped this year. There are several reasons for these drops in enrollment.

First, one in every 20 students is choosing to attend a charter or private school, rather than attend traditional Los Angeles schools. The 88 charter schools within the state now enroll about three percent (about 200,000) of the public school students. About 35,000 of these students attend charter schools within the Los Angeles schools. The number of charter schools within the state continues to increase, with another 20 new charter schools planned for this fall.

The California Charter Schools Association predicts that ten percent of public school students within the state will attend charter schools by the year 2014, with perhaps an even higher percentage in the Los Angeles schools area. They cite that the number of charter schools would need to triple in order to accommodate all of the students currently on waiting lists. With the smaller size and flexibility of charter schools, they can be created and implemented in a very short time, as compared to the large, traditional Los Angeles schools that take years to construct.

The second reason for the drastic drop in enrollment at the Los Angeles schools is birth and lifestyle trends:

• Los Angeles County statistics have shown that hundreds of fewer babies are being born in the county each year. The trend is expected to continue through to the end of the decade.

• Upper income singles and couples with few children have replaced neighborhoods that were once inhabited by large immigrant families. With the rising housing prices in the Los Angeles schools area, most young families or families with many children can no longer afford to live there, opting to move to areas with lower costs of living.

• Additionally, according to researchers at the Public Policy Institute of California, another trend is smaller immigrant families. In their 2002 report, they show that after the first generation, immigrant families successively have smaller families.

Glenn Gritzner, special assistant to the Los Angeles schools, says that the Los Angeles schools have taken the changes in demographics into consideration, but they are not critical enough to change the school building plans. Gritzner states that, if school plans and trends/statistics remain on course through 2012, there still will be 200,000 Los Angeles schools students in portable classrooms and plenty of overcrowded Los Angeles schools remaining. Plus, trends are only current patterns that are subject to change. Measure Y definitely is warranted.

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