11.   The City of Angels was praised for its public health and safety services, but scored low in environmental and educational factors like smog and lagging school test scores.

12.   These are definitely not the questions being explored at City Hall, where Brown is more concerned about the nuts and bolts of crime statistics and school test scores.

13.   Unemployment has dropped, and school test scores are rising slowly, county records show.

14.   While school scores are below national averages, the violence rate is high and services ranging from fire and police to public works are overstretched.