As of late 2010, the state had issued nearly 1,100 notices to school districts with construction projects that had known safety concerns. We've done our best to identify the projects below, but the state's data is messy.
Many schools in California are near fault lines or other earthquake hazards. That doesn't mean they'll collapse in a quake, but many school construction projects have failed to follow basic safety standards. California Watch uncovered about 20,000 projects that lack Field Act certification. Is your school one of them?
The project started out as a simple Loma Prieta quake anniversary story by a solitary reporter. Nineteen months later, nearly four dozen reporters, producers, and freelancers had joined the project. Learn more about how we reported this series.
