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LA Unveils $578M School, Costliest in the Nation
ABC News ^ | August 23, 2010 | Christina Hoag

Posted on 08/23/2010 12:54:44 AM PDT by ruination

Next month's opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools will be auspicious for a reason other than its both storied and infamous history as the former Ambassador Hotel, where the Democratic presidential contender was assassinated in 1968.

With an eye-popping price tag of $578 million, it will mark the inauguration of the nation's most expensive public school ever.

The K-12 complex to house 4,200 students has raised eyebrows across the country as the creme de la creme of "Taj Mahal" schools, $100 million-plus campuses boasting both architectural panache and deluxe amenities.

"There's no more of the old, windowless cinderblock schools of the '70s where kids felt, 'Oh, back to jail,'" said Joe Agron, editor-in-chief of American School & University, a school construction journal. "Districts want a showpiece for the community, a really impressive environment for learning."

Not everyone is similarly enthusiastic.

"New buildings are nice, but when they're run by the same people who've given us a 50 percent dropout rate, they're a big waste of taxpayer money," said Ben Austin, executive director of Parent Revolution who sits on the California Board of Education. "Parents aren't fooled."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; lausd
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To: ruination

Can’t wait to see their “artistic” gang grafiti!


41 posted on 08/23/2010 6:49:12 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: Halgr
Is “Social Justice” the new name for COMMUNISM???

Great question. From time to time, I have asked the social justice advocates for a definition. Typically they arent prepared to answer.

As best I can determine, what these folks want is, at a minimum, some kind of guaranteed income for everyone in the country. No question in my mind that others are outright socialists.

42 posted on 08/23/2010 6:55:26 AM PDT by freespirited
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To: Halgr
Is “Social Justice” the new name for COMMUNISM???

Whenever I heard somebody say the term 'social justice', I want to say to the person, "you left out the 'ist'."

I hear this term a lot in my Church.

43 posted on 08/23/2010 6:58:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: AZLiberty
Tar and feathers should be making a comeback about now.

There's an entrepreneurial IDEA!!!! Open a "TAR & FEATHER" Business then Franchise it Nationwide.

44 posted on 08/23/2010 7:13:59 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Fresh Wind

That really is obscene. It is a school not a monument to the school board.


45 posted on 08/23/2010 7:32:06 AM PDT by Jaded (I realized that after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says W T F)
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To: ruination

I can’t wait to see this bumper sticker in LA!

MY Son Is A Dropout From The
Robert F. Kennedy Community School!


46 posted on 08/23/2010 8:41:05 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (AKA Rodrigo de Bivar)
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To: Fresh Wind
I see Drudge has now changed the picture on his site to this:


47 posted on 08/23/2010 9:05:25 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (For the first time in half a century, there is no former KKK member in the US Senate.)
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To: television is just wrong

Yes - a lovely memorial to Sirhan Sirhan will be built to remember him


48 posted on 08/23/2010 9:14:57 AM PDT by ransomnote
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To: MissDairyGoodnessVT

Can’t be discussed on FR or anywhere else.

Know anyone near South Central?

They’d know.


Guess you could start with the spitting on, and biting of, the doctors and nurses who went there to help.

Like the Superdome during Katrina in New Orleans I guess.


49 posted on 08/23/2010 1:26:50 PM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: ransomnote

absolutely


50 posted on 08/23/2010 4:09:02 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: MissDairyGoodnessVT
Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center ^ 
51 posted on 08/24/2010 7:50:44 AM PDT by Fundamentally Fair (Bush: Mission Accomplished. Obama: Commission Accomplished.)
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To: Swordmaker; Ernest_at_the_Beach; AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; ..

Sure, but that’s 4200 students, approx a mere $137,619.05 per student, probably amortized over a period of years — and the best part, everyone gets to pay for it, so it’ll only run a couple of bucks a head.


52 posted on 08/27/2010 3:35:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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