L.A. Chief Recommends Abandoning Belmont
Top officials of the Los Angeles school system proposed last week that the district abandon the long-troubled construction project that, if finished, would be the most expensive public school ever built in the United States.
Chief Operating Officer Howard Miller's proposal, endorsed by interim Superintendent Ramon C. Cortines, calls the Belmont Learning Center project a "disaster" and recommends that the school board consider the possibility of using the site as a new district headquarters.
The unfinished high school is situated on an old oil field, and environmental concerns and management troubles have plagued the project, which has already cost nearly $200 million. Estimates of the total cost of completing the project have...
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