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Broke - and Building the Most Expensive School in U.S. History
- aresant 16y agoMost striking is WSJ's mention of two another wildly over budget project in the same district. One is a school that cost $377 million (~4x over budget) that "ranks in the bottom third of schools with similar demographics on state tests". Add to that the variety of administrators pointing fingers at eachother, a quick throwaway excuse about needing to complete a project "to show respect for the neighborhood's Latino children" and you've got a microcosm of the insanity that is California politics summed up in a tidy package. Zero accountability, knee jerk political tomfoolery, and a bevy of unionized contractors feeding at the pork barrel that are running the "oh wont somebody please think of the children" commercials that push through these insane bond measures to begin with. Hard to see light at the end of the tunnel.
- fondue 16y agoI wonder how many teachers they could have hired to improve their student to teacher ratios with that money? I know of course that it was a bond that bought the new schools but with the money they are spending on the bond payments they could have instead hired more teachers.