| Barack Obama's $4.35 Billion "Race to the Trough": School year 2010-2011 | | Print | |
| WRITTEN BY BEVERLY K. EAKMAN |
| FRIDAY, 27 AUGUST 2010 15:00 |
Los Angeles just unveiled the "costliest school in the nation" at $578 million — the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools — a K-12 mega-complex, referred to as "the crème de la crème of Taj Mahal schools," in a piece by Associated Press reporter Christina Hoag. The Los Angeles Unified School District, never exactly a model of academic superiority with its 50-percent dropout rate, nevertheless intends for the pretentious palace to serve as a "showpiece for the community." Too bad the pupils who populate the classrooms won’t |
California may be broke, and politicians in the nation’s capital may be drowning in trillion-dollar deficits, but none of that has turned off the spending spigot in every level of government: county, city, state and federal.