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Incredibly, a school built on a known toxic site has opened for students this Fall, in Los Angeles, despite extensive revelations about dangers for its future (now, current) occupants (SMH).
Trouble-plagued L.A. school opens
LOS ANGELES Almost a decade behind schedule, a $350 million downtown high school, the 2,400-student Edward R. Roybal Learning Center, finally opened yesterday after years of environmental, seismic and legal troubles.
Much of the school was built in 2000 when fears grew about toxic gases rising from an old oil field upon which it was built. Construction resumed in 2002 only to be thwarted again by the discovery of an earthquake fault under the campus.
The school became a symbol of bureaucratic ineptitude and wasted taxpayer money. In 2003, District Attorney Steve Cooley labeled the project a public works disaster of biblical proportions. No criminal acts were found, but the district superintendent and half the school board lost their jobs.
Associated Press
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