Check out the country's most expensive public school, built for an eye-popping $578 million:
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At $578 million—or about $140,000 per student—the 24-acre Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex in mid-Wilshire is the most expensive school ever constructed in U.S. history. To put the price in context, this city's Staples sports and entertainment center cost $375 million. To put it in a more important context, the school district is currently running a $640 million deficit and has had to lay off 3,000 teachers in the last two years. It also has one of the lowest graduation rates in the country and some of the worst test scores.
Remind me again why government should be operating schools?
1 comment:
This is repulsive. I don't think this is an outright indictment of government run schools, but rather an example of how reform of the existing system is necessary (transparency, accountability, etc.). Either way, this story makes me want to vomit.
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