Suppose just for the sake of assumption you were tasked with the responsibility of building schools for a large metropolitan district. Suppose you are tasked with building three schools, what do you think it would cost?
Well if it’s the city of Los Angeles, the cost is $1.2 billion. In fact the Robert F Kennedy Community School opening this very week has a price tag of $580 million.
This represents a gross waste of money and resources in a city and state reeling with high unemployment and billions in debt. Perhaps the LA County School Board should spend more time focused on improving it’s 50% dropout rate, rather than spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a building more reminiscent of the Museum of Modern Art than a school.
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