THE SKINNY
It costs L.A. Unified $85,000
a seat, on average, to
build a school. What else
would that
money
buy?
*
Band uniforms ($300 each): 283
Tubas ($5,000 each): 17
Textbooks:
* History (“American Pageant,” new edition; $100 each): 850
* Biology ($90 each): 944
Years of private high school (Crossroads in Santa Monica): 4
Years of Catholic girls’ high school (Immaculate Heart in Los Feliz): 11
Re-sodded baseball diamonds (sod only): 26
L.A. school police officers ($41,000 a year): 2
Art teachers ($42,000 a year): 2
Pounds of clay for art class (15 cents per pound): 582,191 (typical art class order: 2,000 pounds)
Gallons of hydrochloric acid for chemistry class: 3,492
Graphing calculators: 850
School yearbooks (estimated $60 each): 1,416
-- STEPHEN W. STROMBERG
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