WESTSIDE DISTRICT TO DEVELOP 10 ACRES AS ALL-PORTABLE SCHOOL.Byline: KAREN MAESHIRO Staff Writer PALMDALE -- Westside Union School District officials are moving forward with plans to develop 10 acres in west Palmdale as an elementary school elementary school: see school. to help ease crowding 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. Proposed to be named after 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 developer Gregg Anderson, who is a regular benefactor ben·e·fac·tor n. One that gives aid, especially financial aid. [Middle English, from Late Latin, from Latin benefacere, to do a service; see benefaction. to Westside schools, the school at 52nd Street West and Avenue N-8 will accommodate kindergartners through sixth-graders, drawing youths from neighborhoods that now send pupils to Del Sur, Rancho Vista and Sundown schools. ``We hope to have it operational no later than 2008-09, potentially part way through next year,'' Superintendent Regina Rossall said. ``It will be an all-temporary school, meaning all portable buildings, including the office and cafeteria cafeteria: see restaurant. .'' Expected to cost $17million to $18million, the school will be paid for with a combination of developer fees collected from home builders, state matching funds Noun 1. matching funds - funds that will be supplied in an amount matching the funds available from other sources cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource - assets in the form of money , and money from special tax districts created in new tracts to help finance building new schools. The school will relieve 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 Rancho Vista, so it can then have room to take in students from Esperanza School, which opened three years ago and already has more than 1,000 pupils. Westside now has 11 schools and 8,700 students, and officials expect continuing home construction in west Palmdale and west Lancaster will add another 4,000 during the next five years. Westside voters in June rejected Measure K, a $67.5million school construction bond, which officials said would have helped finance three elementary schools and a middle school. Options being considered to accommodate the influx include pursuing a new bond issue no later than 2008, adopting a multitrack mul·ti·track adj. 1. Having, using, or produced with multiple recording tracks: a multitrack tape recorder. 2. year-round schedule, applying to the state for hardship funding, and changing school attendance boundaries. If Westside does change to a multitrack, year-round schedule, it would be limited to the district's most crowded schools: Esperanza, Rancho Vista, Sundown and potentially Del Sur. Rossall said there is no room to add more portable classrooms at Rancho Vista. More portable classrooms are being added to Sundown, bringing the total to nine this year. ``At some point in time, you can only take out so much play space,'' Rossall said. karen.maeshiro@dailynews.com (661) 267-5744 |
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