Thanks to budget cuts, shiny new school sits unused

[proud2BlibKansan]

A more striking symbol of the impact of cuts to education funding would be hard to imagine: A gleaming new Southern California high school that cost more than $100 million to build will sit empty and unused, because the local school district doesn't have enough money to run it.

In 2007, voters approved approved bonds to finance the building of Hillcrest High School in Riverside, which was intended to relieve overcrowding at a nearby high school. But thanks to major cuts in state education funding, the local school district can't afford the $3 million it would cost to pay administrators, teachers, and other staff, and to handle the other expenses that come with operating a school.

So when the school year begins in the fall, Hillcrest will sit idle. Its campus is currently fenced off.

Wendell Tucker of the Alvord Unified School District said the district's $130 million operating budget had been cut by $25 million.

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[JohnnyLib2]

1. No words.

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[provis99]

2. they spent $100 million on that ugly monstrosity?

And it's out in the middle of nowhere? The architect and contractors should be in prison.