How to build a school in three weeks

Sonali Kohli:

About 75 maintenance and operations workers hustled across an area that used to be open asphalt space. In an informal uniform of jeans, black sweatshirts and highlighter-yellow vests, they were making a new school in the backyard of an old one. It was a six-month job, and they had three weeks.

“It’s kind of a model of people working together for a purpose and for emergencies in other parts of the country,” said Scott Schmerelson, the L.A. Unified School District board member for the area.