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The brand new Hillcrest High School in Riverside, Calif., won’t be opening as scheduled: due to budget cutbacks, the Alvord Unified School District doesn’t have the $2 million it needs to stock and staff the school, which cost $105 million to build. District officials are considering a proposal to recruit 200 foreign exchange students and charge them $16,000 each in tuition to balance the budget. That, a consultant said, would have the additional benefit of exposing local students to other cultures. (RC/Riverside Press-Enterprise) ...The shock here isn’t that the district doesn’t have $2 million, or even that they’re hiring consultants. The shock is that new schools cost $105 million.Original Publication Date: 17 July 2011
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
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