DISTRICT WANTS $161 MILLION FOR GLENDALE SCHOOL REPAIRS.Byline: Lee Condon Daily News Staff Writer The superintendent of the Glendale Unified School District The Glendale Unified School District is a school district based in Glendale, California, United States. The school district serves the city of Glendale, portions of the city of La Cañada and the unincorporated communities of Montrose and La Crescenta. says it will cost $161 million to fix aging campuses and help solve an escalating overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. problem. The Glendale school board expects to decide by its Jan. 28 meeting how much money to request from voters in a special June bond election. Superintendent James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3 1933[1][2] – December 25 2006), commonly referred to as "The Godfather of Soul" and " acknowledged that selling voters on a bond that could cost them $50 per year for every $100,000 of assessed property value might be difficult. The district will provide details about how the money will be used at each of the campuses. ``People connect more to their individual school than they do to the district,'' Brown said. ``People want to know: What is it going to mean for Hoover High?'' The district is made up of 19 elementary schools elementary school: see school. , five middle schools and four high schools. The $161 million would be used for renovations and additions. Brown said an additional $29 million will be needed if the board decides to rebuild two 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. elementary schools and to go ahead with a major addition to Crescenta Valley High School Crescenta Valley High School is an secondary school located at 2900 Community Avenue in La Crescenta-Montrose, an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The school is a part of the Glendale Unified School District. . Vic Pallos, a spokesman for the district, said most of its schools were built more than 40 years ago and need major work on infrastructure, electrical systems, waterproofing and plumbing. The Glendale Unified School District has grown rapidly in the last 10 years, from 20,000 students in 1986 to 30,000. |
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