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June 1, 2011 02:41 am PDT
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$105M high-tech high school in LA built, can't open due to budget cuts
Hillcrest High in Riverside, California is just-completed, $105 million high-tech high-school that is desperately needed to alleviate crowding in nearby schools. But the Alvord Unified School District can't open the doors because they've had so many cuts there's no money to staff or run the school: It's a bitter disappointment to 13-year-old Jacob Barrera, who on Thursday graduated from Arizona Middle School and had been looking forward to breaking in the new campus next year. Since sixth grade, Jacob and the rest of what was to have been the first freshman class have been dazzled by school officials, who showed them computer mock-ups of the school and let them pick its colors and mascot: the cardinal-and-gold Trojans. Then, last fall, the district broke the news that Hillcrest High would be mothballed for at least a year and the kids sent to La Sierra High School, a campus with 3,400 students, more than twice the number it was designed for. What if they built a school and nobody got to go? (via Super Punch)...
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