SCHOOL DISTRICT EYES SITE TEMPORARY CAMPUS STUDIED TO EASE STUDENT OVERCROWDING.Byline: KAREN MAESHIRO Staff Writer LANCASTER -- The Westside Union School District is eyeing 10 acres it owns in west Palmdale as a site for a temporary school to help ease 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. at neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. campuses. The district is considering several options as it deals with the rejection by voters in June of Measure K, a $67.5 million school construction bond. ``We are hoping to bring down (student enrollment at) Esperanza,'' Superintendent Regina Rossall said. ``It's going to be almost 1,300 kids on a campus built for 750.'' Expecting 4,000 more students in the next five years, Westside officials wanted to pass the bond measure to raise enough money to build three elementary schools elementary school: see school. and a middle school. The district now has 11 schools and 8,700 students. Other options being considered include pursuing a new bond issue; adopting a multitrack mul·ti·track adj. 1. Having, using, or produced with multiple recording tracks: a multitrack tape recorder. 2. , year-round schedule, and changing school attendance boundaries. The cost of erecting a temporary school at the 10-acre site at Avenue N-8 and 52nd Street West would be about $18 million. Since the bond's defeat, trustees also have discussed developing an overall strategy on securing financing, including applying for state hardship funding. A temporary school would take in students from Del Sur, Rancho ran·cho n. pl. ran·chos Southwestern U.S. 1. A hut or group of huts for housing ranch workers. 2. A ranch. Vista and Sundown schools, Rossall said. Rancho Vista's boundaries then would be moved to take in students from Esperanza, which opened three years ago. Westside in 2004 considered moving Rancho Vista School a mile west to the Avenue N-8 site to make room for an expansion of adjacent Hillview Middle School Hillview Middle School is a public middle school in Menlo Park, California, part of the Menlo Park City School District. It is notable as having been named a California Distinguished School seven times. . But trustees said later that parents might not like the idea because it would move Rancho Vista from the center of the community to its outer edge. In May, the board discussed with the city of Palmdale the possibility of acquiring three acres proposed for a neighborhood park to expand 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. Esperanza School. The district could obtain the parcel either through buying it from the city or a land swap involving the Avenue N-8 site. City officials were noncommittal, saying residents had to be canvassed before any decision was made. karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com (661) 267-5744 |
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