Local News in Brief : Education Park Approved
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The Los Angeles Unified School District has received conditional approval from the federal government to build a marine science-oriented educational park on former Ft. MacArthur land in San Pedro.
The district was in danger of losing the 52-acre site, which the government deeded to it in 1979 with the understanding that a new high school would be built there. The school was never built, however, and the U.S. Department of Education had given the district until July 1 to come up with an acceptable alternative plan for using the ocean-view site.
The department approved the plan for a marine center on the condition that the district make significant progress on the project within the next year.
The district plans to build a facility for the care and study of marine animals, in cooperation with the publishing firm of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, which also builds theme parks. The proposed educational park would include permanent facilities for outdoor education, teacher training and the teaching of a new “global education” curriculum.
The district told the government that it expects the marine animal care facility to open in the summer of 1991.
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