re: #484 Daniel Ballard

LAUSD went way beyond “nice’. And in this fiscal condition, all we can afford is functional. Put the architecture money into class sizes or teachers.

Like as another example the costliest school in the nation. 500 million plus. For a school. Not teachers not books, not field trips or guest speakers. Just the facility.
From Huffpo First Posted: 08/22/10
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.

That’s almost exactly the 1999 cost of one Tomahawk (AGM 109).