The Associated Press has a dispatch on what it calls "Taj Mahal" schools, pegged to the opening of a $578 million public school in Los Angeles that it describes as "the nation's most expensive public school ever":
The RFK complex follows on the heels of two other LA schools among the nation's costliest — the $377 million Edward R. Roybal Learning Center, which opened in 2008, and the $232 million Visual and Performing Arts High School that debuted in 2009....
New Brunswick, N.J., opened a $185 million high school in January....After a firestorm over the $197.5 million Newton North High School in Massachusetts, Mayor David Cohen chose not to seek re-election and state Treasurer Timothy Cahill reined in school construction spending.
