PALMDALE SEEKING SITE FOR SCHOOL SPECIAL POWERS MAY BE NEEDED.Byline: KAREN MAESHIRO Staff Writer PALMDALE -- The Palmdale School District The Palmdale School District is a school district that serves a major part of the city of Palmdale, California (USA). The Palmdale School District was first formed in 1888. Approximately 28,000 students are enrolled in the Palmdale School District. is looking to develop an elementary school elementary school: see school. site east of 25th Street East and could have to resort to using its eminent-domain powers to acquire the land. The proposed 12-acre site consists of about 46 individual parcels, three of which are owned by the district, and trustees earlier this month approved spending $8,200 to hire a firm to appraise appraise v. to professionally evaluate the value of property including real estate, jewelry, antique furniture, securities, or in certain cases the loss of value (or cost of replacement) due to damage. the parcels that need to be acquired. "The district owns the minority of the land," Deputy Superintendent Deputy Superintendent, or Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), was a rank used by police forces of the British Empire. In some territories it was called Deputy District Superintendent of Police (DDSP). Lori Ordway-Peck said. "The appraisals will determine the cost. Eminent domain eminent domain, the right of a government to force the owner of private property sell it if it is needed for a public use. The right is based on the doctrine that a sovereign state has dominion over all lands and buildings within its borders, which has its origins in might be a possibility." The elementary school would be the 27th campus in the 22,600-student district and is one of three being planned. The other two are an intermediate school west of 25th Street East and a school proposed on Palmdale's east side near 62nd Street East and Avenue S-8. The 62nd Street school, which is being planned for 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 eighth grade, is under design and the property for that site has been acquired, Ordway-Peck said. No piece of property has been identified for purchase for the intermediate school. Ordway-Peck said the district plans to apply for hardship funding to pay for construction of the schools. The K-8 school, which at a minimum is about two to three years away from being built, was initially estimated to cost $20 million, but the price tag will probably be much higher because of soaring construction costs. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the latest figures, district enrollment has declined to 22,643 students, which is 360 fewer students than a year ago and 250 fewer students than two years ago, records show. Ordway-Peck said the district is planning for the future with the three schools. A demographic firm hired by the district has concluded that there will be 30,000 more students when the city is fully built out. "We will need six to 10 more schools," Ordway-Peck said. "When we need them is a product of when growth starts to come back. It takes from planning to opening doors seven to 10 years to get a school going. This is just good planning and planning for the future." "For us to acquire the empty land now, even though it's early," she added, "is easier than trying to acquire land that's occupied later." karen.maeshiro@dailynews.com (661) 267-5744 |
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