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LA unveils $578M school, costliest in the nation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/22/AR2010082201744.html ^

Posted on 08/23/2010 11:13:58 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA

LOS ANGELES -- 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.

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At RFK, the features include fine art murals and a marble memorial depicting the complex's namesake, a manicured public park, a state-of-the-art swimming pool and preservation of pieces of the original hotel.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: california; cultureofcorruption; empirebuilding; la; naughtyteacherslist; publicschools; schools; taxdollarswasted
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1 posted on 08/23/2010 11:14:00 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA
all to service an almost 100% illegal immigrant population...
2 posted on 08/23/2010 11:15:12 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Red in Blue PA

<40% LAUSD graduation. Of the 40% that do graduate, 80% cannot read at college level and must take beginning reading classes.


3 posted on 08/23/2010 11:16:28 AM PDT by edcoil (Truth's commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed.)
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To: 2banana

Foxnews just read a comment from the school district.....in their response, they misspelled “serious” as “serous”....also had another misspelling.

No joke.


4 posted on 08/23/2010 11:16:40 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Anti-Gunners suffer from Factose Intolerance)
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To: Red in Blue PA

<40% LAUSD graduation rate. Of the 40% that do graduate, 80% cannot read at college level and must take beginning reading classes.


5 posted on 08/23/2010 11:16:40 AM PDT by edcoil (Truth's commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Education is getting more costly. Time to blame high cost of teachers.


6 posted on 08/23/2010 11:17:18 AM PDT by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory")
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To: Red in Blue PA

I’m praying for the municipal bond market to tank so BS projects like this can’t get bonded out. Wall Street has been pushing this crap for years. They are the enablers


7 posted on 08/23/2010 11:17:38 AM PDT by dennisw (2012)
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To: Red in Blue PA

ARE THEY INSANE???????????

HOW DID THEY GET THIS KIND OF BUDGET FOR THIS??????


8 posted on 08/23/2010 11:17:46 AM PDT by Mr. K (Physically unable to proofreed (<---oops! see?))
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To: Red in Blue PA

Fine. Then we shouldn’t hear one single, solitary bitch from the LA school district about budget shortfalls, should we?


9 posted on 08/23/2010 11:18:46 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (YouTube My Space and I'll Google your Yahoo.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

They need to find out who is responsible for this boondoggle and hang them. This is a total disgrace and now they come begging money from the rest of us to they can pay police and firemen.


10 posted on 08/23/2010 11:19:01 AM PDT by McGavin999 (I'm sorry, your race card is overdrawn and no further charges can be accepted)
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To: Red in Blue PA

In case anyone didn’t run the numbers, this comes out to $138,000 per student.


11 posted on 08/23/2010 11:19:38 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Anti-Gunners suffer from Factose Intolerance)
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This bears repeating in large font:

features include fine art murals and a marble memorial depicting the complex's namesake, a manicured public park, a state-of-the-art swimming pool and preservation of pieces of the original hotel.
12 posted on 08/23/2010 11:20:58 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Anti-Gunners suffer from Factose Intolerance)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Proof that the budget crisis is not a real concern for the left.

The sooner LA and CA go broke the sooner we can fix the problems.

When I first saw the spiral architecture along side the 101, I thought it was another Disney Music/Theater complex.


13 posted on 08/23/2010 11:20:58 AM PDT by NoLibZone (I am currently under federal investigation by the DNC for my opposition to the Ground Zero mosque.)
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That’s $137,619.00 per pupil. Is that high? Seems so to me. Actually it’s crazy. Did it say how much of the money comes from Federal programs?

I’m really sick of the Federal Government paying for everything. In Charlotte they’re putting in a wireless network for emergency services. Guess who’s paying for it.


14 posted on 08/23/2010 11:21:17 AM PDT by frposty (I'm a simpleton)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Another school built for Anchor Babies and other children of illegal aliens. Who wouldn’t cross the border illegally to get your kids into this for free — even though it is run by LAUSD! By the time out public school teachers/government propagandists get done with these kids they’ll be illiterate in not one language but two! Bwahaha!


15 posted on 08/23/2010 11:21:31 AM PDT by wayne_shrugged
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I'm sure the SAT scores in this area will skyrocket, as well.

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What?

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Stop laughing!

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Look, they've been telling us for years that low education scores are because of lack of money, right?

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STOP LAUGHING !!!

16 posted on 08/23/2010 11:21:46 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: NoLibZone

Can we start placing bets as to when the first shooting will occur there?

Anyone who believes Marble is the solution ot the problem IS the problem.


17 posted on 08/23/2010 11:22:36 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Anti-Gunners suffer from Factose Intolerance)
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To: Red in Blue PA

The LA education elites build an unnecessarily extravagant school and charge the taxpayers crushing taxes to fund it. In a prior time, Louis XIV building Versailles on the backs of the starving peasants. In both cases, the elites took everything the common people had to build their palaces.


18 posted on 08/23/2010 11:23:55 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard
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They even have “talking benches” at the school. Lots of silly stuff. A resurant quality pizza oven, etc.


19 posted on 08/23/2010 11:25:24 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Red in Blue PA
this comes out to $138,000 per student.

No logic points for you.

Assuming the building lasts for 12 years, then there will be 4200 DIFFERENT students in there, for a total of 8400.

I'll grant you that it's an atrocious amount of money, but your numbers aren't right.

20 posted on 08/23/2010 11:25:56 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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