LOS ANGELES : High School Career Academy to Be Built
The Los Angeles Unified School District announced plans Monday for its first career academy high school to be built on a 24-acre site near Downtown, to serve 2,000 students who now are bused across town.
Supt. Sid Thompson called the $50-million campus “the most significant education enterprise” in the last 20 years. As well as offering basic high school courses, the school will provide specialized training and apprenticeships in the public and social service, business and health service fields.
The new campus, scheduled to open in about four years, will relieve severe overcrowding at 4,000-student Belmont High School, the largest high school in the nation.
The district also will negotiate to build low-income housing and a small shopping center on a portion of the land at Temple Street and Beaudry Avenue.
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