The latest edition of LA84 Foundation's "SportsLetter"
The LA84 Foundation (formerly known as the Amateur Athletic Foundation) has just published the latest edition of "SportsLetter". The bi-monthly, online newsletter features my interviews with director Michael Apted ("The Power of the Game") and with historian Jeff Wiltse, author of "Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America."
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Parents have won partial restoration of federal poverty funds for 23 schools in the San Fernando Valley and the Westside. Many of the schools are in middle class neighborhoods but have substantial numbers of poor students.
