The Edward R. Roybal Learning Center took a long and difficult path to completion but once finished the Los Angeles Unified School District could call the school a success, rather than a disaster. Related Links: Best of California 2009 Construction at the school site began in the late 1990s but was shut down two separate times after seismic and environmental conditions were discovered. The project site sat dormant for three years. The school, then called the Belmont Learning Complex, was viewed as the most expensive high school never built. But in 2005, the Los Angeles Unified School District awarded new