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These schools are safe
In today’s Dayton Daily News, I wrote that seven or eight Dayton elementary schools will not be rebuilt as part of the Dayton Public Schools construction program because of enrollment declines. Wondering if your school is safe? Here is the list of schools that already are in the pipeline for construction and will be part of the master plan the district will submit next month for sure:
The six high schools will be rebuilt
• Thurgood Marshall High School will replace Colonel White at the former Roth High School site on Hoover Ave. Construction is underway.
• David Ponitz Career Technical high school will replace Patterson at a site near Sinclair Community College
• Stivers will be back on its Fifth Street site in 2007
• Meadowdale will return to the same site
• Dunbar will return to the same site
These 12 elementary schools are either underway or already part of the master plan
• Kiser opens on the same site this summer
• Wogaman opens at the same site this fall
• Belle Haven opens at the same site this fall
• Cleveland opens at the same site this winter
• The Charity Adams Earley Academy for Girls will be renovated at the same site
• The Roosevelt School for Boys will be built at the Roosevelt High School site
• A new Montessori school will be located at the Patterson Career Center on River Corridor Drive
• The World of Wonder school will be at the same site (formerly Residence Park Elementary School)
• A new school will replace Cornell Heights on Kings Highway
• Ruskin will be at the same site
• Horace Mann will be at the same site
• Louise Troy will be at the same site
• Kemp will be rebuilt at the same site (Sorry. I accidentally left Kemp off the list initially.)
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By Oldprof
June 18, 2006 6:42 PM | Link to this
It’s uninformed people like Dirk who keep electing the wrong people. The construction levy will only be used for construction and for a reserve fund for maintenance. Any amount more than is needed for those purposes will result in a reduction. In fact, the original millage has already been reduced. When construction is near to complete, the school board will figure out how much further reduction in millage or in duration of the levy will be needed. NOW DIRK: have you sufficient integrity to blame others who are, in fact, doing what you accuse? Because the State of Ohio is not cutting your taxes no matter what happens in this construction: John Husted et al will continue to collect your cash but will give less of it back to you. Until people blame the correct culprits, we’ll be stuck with them—and they’re on Broad Street in Columbus, not on Ludlow Street in Dayton.By Scott Elliott
June 15, 2006 3:34 PM | Link to this
Good catch by East Dayton Dad. I inadvertantly left Kemp off the safe list. It will be rebuilt.By East Dayton Dad
June 15, 2006 2:04 PM | Link to this
Kemp Elementary is not listed in the “being built” list or the “possibly not being built” list? Which is it? DPS can forget my child coming back to Dayton Public if they do not rebuild Kemp. It’s a dump.By Dirk Sniggler
June 14, 2006 9:41 PM | Link to this
I guess this means we’ll be getting back some of that tax monies we had decided to give up to the school board. What? You mean we get no money back, and DPS can continue to be the most incompetant organization in the history of mankind? And we still don’t get our money back.