BOARD OKS FUNDS FOR CAMPUS SITE TIERRA BONITA TO GET PERMANENT HOME.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - The Eastside Union School District will spend $425,000 to buy 12 1/2 acres for a permanent campus for Tierra Bonita Bonita (Spanish and Portuguese for "beautiful") is the name of:
Construction of the $10 million school, to be located at Avenue J-4 and 27th Street East, is scheduled to begin in April 2005 and be completed in about a year, district officials said. The owners of the land are Realtors who live in Texas, Superintendent Colleen col·leen n. An Irish girl. [Irish Gaelic cailín, diminutive of caile, girl, from Old Irish. Larson said. The board unanimously approved making the purchase last week. The school will hold 650 students in grades kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be through five. Tierra Bonita North now shares a campus on 27th Street East and Lancaster Boulevard with Tierra Bonita South. The two schools had started out as one. Eastside officials had originally planned for only portable classrooms at the new campus, but decided this year to build a permanent school. Permanent construction will be more expensive, but the district still has money from a 1997 bond measure that could be used for the local portion of the cost. The Tierra Bonita North campus was previously going to be located at 40th Street East and Avenue J-8 on 10 acres the district purchased from the city. That land had no sewer SEWER. Properly a trench artificially made for the purpose of carrying water into the sea, river, or some other place of reception. Public sewers are, in general, made at the public expense. Crabb, R. P. Sec. 113. or water lines, however, and district officials preferred to establish the next school closer to the district's population center. So last November they decided to sell the parcel back to the city. Having a school nearer to students' homes is expected to create a walk-in walk-in A new brokerage customer who simply walks into the office. Although walk-ins are generally assigned to brokers, they have the right to specify a preferred broker. school for most of the children and to cut down on school-bus costs. Tierra Bonita opened in 1991 to accommodate youngsters living in housing tracts that sprang up during the late 1980s in eastern Lancaster. The school was split in 1997 to make administration easier and to reduce school crowding and traffic congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. resulting from parents dropping off and picking up their children. Eastside voters approved a $15.5 million construction bond measure in 1997, adding $32 per $100,000 in assessed value to property owners' annual tax bills. The bond revenue was used to build the $9.5 million Cole Middle School at Avenue I and 30th Street East and to modernize mod·ern·ize v. mo·dern·ized, mo·dern·iz·ing, mo·dern·iz·es v.tr. To make modern in appearance, style, or character; update. v.intr. To accept or adopt modern ways, ideas, or style. Eastside Elementary School. Cole Middle School opened in 2000. Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com |
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