DESERT HIGH TO GET MAKEOVER.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. - Using state aid, Muroc Joint Unified School District A unified school district is a school district which includes both primary school (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high school (grades 9-12). In Illinois, these districts are called unit school districts. will start $2 million in refurbishing work at Desert High School. The work will include putting in energy-efficient windows and air- conditioning systems, remodeling remodeling /re·mod·el·ing/ (re-mod´el-ing) reorganization or renovation of an old structure. bone remodeling laboratories and making bathrooms accessible to the handicapped comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act Americans with Disabilities Act, U.S. civil-rights law, enacted 1990, that forbids discrimination of various sorts against persons with physical or mental handicaps. . ``We are redoing the science labs, which will be a wonderful thing,'' Superintendent Bertha Boullion said. The board voted last week to award contract, for which state modernization funds will pay 80 percent and locally raised revenue 20 percent. The state aid comes under Proposition 47, which California voters approved in November 2002. The state modernization money is for schools more than 50 years old. Desert High underwent $300,000 worth of electrical work this past summer as part of the project, Boullion said. The remaining work will start in December and is expected to be done by August next year. The Desert High upgrade is among nearly $6 million worth of modernization projects planned in Muroc in the next several years. Irving L. Branch and Forbes elementary schools at Edwards and Muroc's continuation high school A continuation high school is an alternative to a comprehensive high school primarily for students who are considered at-risk of not graduating at the normal pace. The requirements to graduate are the same but the scheduling is more flexible to allow students to earn their credits will be modernized in the second phase. Bids will be solicited in the spring on the second phase, with construction to start in June, Boullion said. Modernization work on West Boron boron (bōr`ŏn) [New Gr. from borax], chemical element; symbol B; at. no. 5; at. wt. 10.81; m.p. about 2,300°C;; sublimation point about 2,550°C;; sp. gr. 2.3 at 25°C;; valence +3. Elementary School and Boron Junior-Senior High School will begin in September 2004 with completion scheduled for August 2005. The Forbes campus was closed as a cost-cutting move and is now rented out for use as college classrooms. It may be reopened as an elementary school at some point in the future, Boullion said. Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com |
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