Most 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 "r

Most 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.