America's priciest public school: By the numbers

The Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools — a lavish new complex in Los Angeles that cost more than China's Olympic stadium — is fueling controversy

The new school's campus spans 23 acres of land.
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Next month, students in the Los Angeles Unified School District will sit down for classes at the most expensive public school in the nation. The newly-built Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools — located on the site of the Ambassador Hotel, where Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968 — is just the latest $100 million-plus "Taj Mahal" school to open across the country. Just how lavish is the RFK school? (Watch a local report about the school.) Here, a look at the numbers:

$578 million

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