SITE PURCHASED FOR PHOENIX HIGH $3.8 MILLION TO GO TOWARD BUILDING PERMANENT CAMPUS.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - Construction is scheduled to start early next year at the former Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. on a new campus for Phoenix High School, Antelope Valley Union High School District's last stop for expelled students. The $3.8 million school will be located on 5 acres near its current campus of portable classrooms at the fairgrounds at Division Street and Avenue I. ``It's going to be built with permanent modular construction,'' 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. Jeff Foster Jeffrey Douglas Foster (born January 16 1977, in San Antonio, Texas) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Indiana Pacers of the NBA. said. ``It's intended and designed to be a permanent location for that facility.'' The board at its Nov. 12 meeting approved spending $200,000 to buy the vacant land in the fairground's northwest corner from the city of Lancaster The City of Lancaster (2002 population: 133,914) is a local government district with city status in Lancashire, England. Its main town is Lancaster, from which it obtained its city status. Other towns in the district include Morecambe, Heysham, Slyne, and Carnforth. , which took over the property after the new fairgrounds was built. City officials plan to make much of the 75-acre former fairgrounds available for development. The city expects to save Challenger and Yucca halls and make them available for youth programs, and plans also call for homes and a park. The high school district wants to create two campuses for Phoenix High School, one at the former fairgrounds in Lancaster and another in Palmdale at 22nd Street East and Avenue Q. Ground has already been broken for the Palmdale campus, which is scheduled to be completed next summer. Construction should start on the Lancaster site in January and be done by November 2004. The schools are being paid for by local bond funds and state matching funds, Foster said. Phoenix High School has a student enrollment of about 115 pupils who have been expelled from other campuses, referred for behavioral problems or convicted of crimes. ``It's a community school for students who are placed there through any number of means for corrective behavior,'' Foster said. The Phoenix campus has been transient since opening in 1995. It first started out at the former Mira Loma Jail but was booted out when the Immigration and Naturalization Service Noun 1. Immigration and Naturalization Service - an agency in the Department of Justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the United States INS moved in to house immigrant detainees. The school also had a campus at a former fire station on Avenue M, but that building was razed raze also rase tr.v. razed also rased, raz·ing also ras·ing, raz·es also ras·es 1. To level to the ground; demolish. See Synonyms at ruin. 2. To scrape or shave off. 3. to make way for the Antelope Valley Courthouse. Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com |
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