David Geffen gives $100 million for a private middle/high school for UCLA staff and others

Entertainment industry billionaire David Geffen, who previously gave $300 million to support UCLA's medical school, is donating $100 million to establish a private middle and high school on the Westwood campus partly for the children of faculty and staff. Geffen and UCLA Chancellor Gene Block described the new school in part as a recruiting and retention tool for faculty and scientists who may be worried about the cost of living in Los Angeles and the education system here. For younger students, the long-established UCLA Lab School enrolls many children of faculty in pre-kindergarten through the 6th grade, but its graduates then must go to public or private schools elsewhere. UCLA has...