LA unveils $578M school, costliest in the nation

Just think how great our kids would learn in this school. Oh, by the way, the only factor ever proved to improve kids’ learning, is Mom. Yes, this is the same state that just gave out vouchers (IOUs) to state employees. With 9$B in debt and the highest taxes in the country, don’t laugh Connecticut. Our elected employee are just as bad.

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.

“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.”