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LAUSD, with a 60% drop out rate, knows how to spend money, on buildings.
It built a "school for the arts" for about $300 million--in downtown LA, where NO children who will attend the school live and faculty barely visits.
Then they built a high school for $400 million on top of a methane gas field, guaranteed to raise the cancer rate for the children, mostly Hispanic, to attend that school.
Now they have built a "complex “of schools for almost $600 million.
"Already ballooning to $572 million, Los Angeles Unified's most expensive school and possibly the nation's looks like it will need a final $6 million infusion before fully opening this fall.
The Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools, a K-12 complex on the former site of the Ambassador Hotel where Kennedy was assassinated in 1968, needs the money to satisfy environmental regulations.
School board members are scheduled Tuesday to vote on the additional funding request.
The school will consist of six different learning centers and enroll 4,260 students, making the cost per seat about $135,000 nearly 40 percent higher than the average school built in the central Los Angeles area over the past two years.
It even exceeds the per-seat cost of the pricey High School for the Visual and Performing Arts, whose $132,000 per-seat price tag along with its bold, roller-coaster inspired architecture raised plenty of eyebrows when it opened in September 2009."
While many LAUSD schools do not have enough textbooks, supplies are brought by the teachers, field trips are cancelled, and this school has a TALKING BENCH.
"Still, some of the items purchased for the school have caught the attention of top district officials, such as talking benches designed by artists to commemorate the historic significance of the Ambassador Hotel and its famous Cocoanut Grove nightclub."
In a few years this school will show the affects of poor maintenance, vandalism, lack of funds for important things, like books.
Why is LAUSD a failure? It spent $1.2 billion for three schools.
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It built a "school for the arts" for about $300 million--in downtown LA, where NO children who will attend the school live and faculty barely visits.
Then they built a high school for $400 million on top of a methane gas field, guaranteed to raise the cancer rate for the children, mostly Hispanic, to attend that school.
Now they have built a "complex “of schools for almost $600 million.
"Already ballooning to $572 million, Los Angeles Unified's most expensive school and possibly the nation's looks like it will need a final $6 million infusion before fully opening this fall.
The Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools, a K-12 complex on the former site of the Ambassador Hotel where Kennedy was assassinated in 1968, needs the money to satisfy environmental regulations.
School board members are scheduled Tuesday to vote on the additional funding request.
The school will consist of six different learning centers and enroll 4,260 students, making the cost per seat about $135,000 nearly 40 percent higher than the average school built in the central Los Angeles area over the past two years.
It even exceeds the per-seat cost of the pricey High School for the Visual and Performing Arts, whose $132,000 per-seat price tag along with its bold, roller-coaster inspired architecture raised plenty of eyebrows when it opened in September 2009."
While many LAUSD schools do not have enough textbooks, supplies are brought by the teachers, field trips are cancelled, and this school has a TALKING BENCH.
"Still, some of the items purchased for the school have caught the attention of top district officials, such as talking benches designed by artists to commemorate the historic significance of the Ambassador Hotel and its famous Cocoanut Grove nightclub."
In a few years this school will show the affects of poor maintenance, vandalism, lack of funds for important things, like books.
Why is LAUSD a failure? It spent $1.2 billion for three schools.
More...