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Finally, new schools
NOTE: Today’s story had an error. Cleveland opens in January and Belle Haven and Wogaman open in October.
Dayton’s school construction program is a big, complex project that has taken a long time to bear fruit, but this month the city will begin to see its 2002 tax levy dollars pay off.
Here’s a photo of what the new Kiser Elementary School looks like on the inside:
(Thanks to DDN photographer David Munch for this photo and to DDN intern Nicole Lark, who taught me how to post photos at GOTB)
I think the very first planning meeting for the Dayton schools construction project that I went to was in 1999. If that seemed like a long seven years of waiting, the new schools will soon seem like they are opening all the time. Here is the schedule for when the 15 schools already in the pipeline will open:
2006
July: Kiser Elementary School
October: Belle Haven Elementary School and Wogaman Elementary School
2007
January: Cleveland Elementary School
July: Fairport Elementary School (interim name that will likely change for a new school at Gettysburg and Kings Highway)
September: Ruskin Elementary School
November: Stivers School for the Arts
December: Kemp Elementary School, Louise Troy Elementary School
2008
January: E.J. Brown Elementary School, McNary Elementary School (at Westwood Park site)
February: Thurgood Marshall High School (replaces Colonel White at the Roth site)
April: Horace Mann Elementary School
September: David Ponitz Career Technical High School (replaces Patterson next to Sinclair Community College), Dunbar High School
Click here for the complete list of which schools will be rebuilt vs. torn down.
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By NYC Educator
July 20, 2006 5:22 PM | Link to this
That school looks gorgeous. I’d love to work in a building like that, and my students would love it too.