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Shocking choices: LAUSD's most expensive school raises questions about priorities

  • 07-15-2010
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Editorial/Los Angeles Daily News

Let's take a little survey. What's more valuable in a high school: Talking benches or teachers? Art installations and marble memorial walls? Or a few trees so it's actually cool enough for kids to play outside? A state-of-the-art swimming pool or functioning science labs? The sensible answers are pretty obvious, right? Not to the Los Angeles Unified School District, which chose to spend $572 million to build elaborate - no, lavish - schools out of the former Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard.  (more...)

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