Closing the Opportunity Gap | Advancement Project Los Angeles

April 24, 2008
	First 5 commissioner urges school bonds to build preschools too Molly Munger, a First 5 California state commissioner and founder of the Advancement Project Los Angeles, said that the next statewide school construction bond must include funding for new preschool classrooms. more »


April 20, 2008
	California public schools seek private money just to cover the basics Schools across the California have long sought to raise private funds to supplement the basic funding they receive through the state. The current state fiscal crisis has parents digging deeper into their own pockets, and in the end, poorer communities may fall even further behind. more »


April 15, 2008
	Mayor Villaraigosa announces plan to fight gang violence In his State of the City address on April 14, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa unveiled a gang reduction strategy that adopts core recommendations from our January 2007 report on the city\'s gang violence efforts. more »

Connie Rice and a panel of distinguished experts on LA's epidemic of gang violence.

Chris Ringewald position of the staff
	An "old" hand at GIS mapping, Chris is adding expertise in programming and demographic data to complement his mad skills with the saxophone.

Invisible Kids

This brief documentary shows how the prevalence of "temporary" modular buildings masks the reality of overcrowding in many schools serving low income children, and presents schoolchildren describing the impact of these inadequate environments in their own words.

The Summer of Success: Case Study of One Proven Solution to the Gang Epidemic

The problem of gang violence can be solved. In the summer of 2003 in "The Jungle," a crime-ridden neighborhood of Los Angeles home to four feuding gangs, gang homicides dropped to 0 compared to 9 in the summer before.