Dre, who's launching the magnet school along with music industry mogul Jimmy Iovine, per the Los Angeles Times.
The Times notes the project—modeled after USC's Iovine and Young Academy to merge "design, business, and technology with hands-on, real-world learning," per City News Service—is "a rare investment by the entertainment elite in the nation's second-largest school system." LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner thinks it could become "the coolest high school in America," per the Times.