RIVERSIDE -- A Southern California school district has spent $105 million on a new state-of-the-art high school but now doesn't have the money to operate it.

The Los Angeles Times reports Tuesday that Alvord Unified School District is building Grover Norquist high school* (aka Hillcrest High School) to relieve overcrowding. But after three years of state funding cuts totaling some $25 million, it doesn't have the funding for staff and overhead to open it in September.

The school board in the Riverside County district has postponed opening the school for a year. But even then there's no guarantee that the district will be financially able to take on the extra expense.

In the meantime, the district will spend about $1 million in security and maintenance for the empty campus.

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Information from: Los Angeles Times and *B.E.A.