Price tag for schools complex at former Ambassador Hotel site now tops $578 million Education - latimes.com

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Syracuse economist tapped to head Claremont Graduate University By Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times Deborah A. Freund, a prominent expert on healthcare financing who at one time was a front-runner for chancellor at UCLA, will take over as president of Claremont in the fall. Price tag for schools complex at former Ambassador Hotel site now tops $578 million By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times It is the Los Angeles Unified School District's most expensive school project. The school board approves an additional $6.6 million in new expenses to already costly revisions. Is UC regent's vision for higher education clouded by his investments? Richard C. Blum's ownership of about $700 million in stock of two firms that run for-profit schools raises the question of whether his holdings are consistent with his role as a UC regent.

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