BOARD TO STUDY PORTABLES.Byline: Cecilia Chan Daily News Staff Writer The school board will weigh on weigh on Verb to be oppressive or burdensome to: the expectations that weigh so heavily on diplomats' wives Verb 1. Tuesday whether to lease 12 portable classrooms next year, when 750 new students join the district's rolls. The recommendation by the district's Facilities Master Plan Committee would place the portables at elementary schools elementary school: see school. , with sites to be determined in the next two to three weeks. The 34-member committee, formed in January, is charged with finding short- and long-term Long-term Three or more years. In the context of accounting, more than 1 year. long-term 1. Of or relating to a gain or loss in the value of a security that has been held over a specific length of time. Compare short-term. solutions to the district's growing student population. ``It's an economical way to go,'' committee chairman Michael Murphy Michael Murphy may refer to:
Murphy said the committee didn't want the board to make a costly investment on a Band-Aid solution that will soon be supplanted by a long-term strategy. ``The second part of the recommendation is in the event that a school site was unable to accommodate additional portables, that the district look at reconfiguration of individual schools in terms of grade levels,'' he said. ``If a school is overcrowded o·ver·crowd v. o·ver·crowd·ed, o·ver·crowd·ing, o·ver·crowds v.tr. To cause to be excessively crowded: a system of consolidation that only overcrowded the classrooms. and it's located at the west end and we couldn't put a portable on site, we can move sixth-graders to the middle schools.'' The cost to lease a portable is $6,000 a year, said Lowell Schultze, district assistant superintendent Assistant Superintendent, or Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), was a rank used by police forces in the British Empire. It was usually the lowest rank that could be held by a European officer, most of whom joined the police at this rank. of business. The district's student enrollment for the 1999-2000 school year is expected to reach 20,780, Schultze said. The district has 20 elementary, three middle and three high schools. From 1995 to February, 2,006 housing units have been constructed, sending more students into the district's classrooms, he said. And 3,109 more new units are on the books now to be built in the future, he said. ``It gives us time to put a long-term plan together,'' he said. ``We have a whole list of options, about 13 of them.'' Options being looked at for the 2000-2001 and beyond school years include: Building a new school. Opening one of the four closed elementary schools, which were shut down in 1982 because of low enrollment. It would cost $2 million each to bring each closed campus up to state code. Putting in modular classrooms Modular Classrooms are portable classrooms, also called temporary or relocatable classrooms, which are frequently used by schools in need of additional rooms or in emergencies. Modular construction is performed in a factory with the efficiencies of assembly-line techniques. . Implementing year-round class schedules. Moving sixth-grade students to middle schools. Leasing commercial space for classrooms. Reconfigure To change the status of something. school boundaries so that students from crowded schools are shifted to less crowded campuses. Schultze said the committee hopes to present the several long-term solutions to the school board by summer. |
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