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Residence Park opens with music, festivities
DAYTON - With a singing choir and funky jazz band community members celebrated the opening of the new Residence Park school, part of a district wide building project.
Branton Hamilton, 13, blew the alto saxophone lead with the Wonder Band on “Mister Magic” as part of the celebration while an excited group of parents, students, teachers and neighbors clapped along.
“It is a lot better than it was,” Hamilton said of the new prekindergarten through eight grade building. Now at Stivers School for the Arts, Hamilton and his older brother, bassist Breaux Hamilton both attended Residence Park before the new building.
“The students are lucky,” the older Hamilton said. “I think there are more learning opportunities here.”
Current students are excited too, said Cleaster Jackson, principal of the 472-student school. “It has taken a lot for this to happen,” she said. “The new building, the new technology, has excited both the students and the teachers.”
Residence Park is the 18th new school to open in the Dayton Public Schools district, which is in the midst of a 26-building district wide project funded in part by the Ohio School Facilities Commission. The commission uses money from the state tobacco settlement to build and renovate schools.
David H. Ponitz, chair of Citizens for Neighborhood Schools, the political action committee that supported district’s 2002 tax request to build the new schools, said the whole community should be proud of the new building. “Together… we can rebuild Dayton,” Ponitz said.
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By Max
September 13, 2010 10:01 AM | Link to this
I hope Ponitz and his group can push the DPS superintendent towards the neighborhood schools concept. Residence Park is but one small - albeit, good - step towards bringing sanity back to the community-school relationship especially in the PK-6 grade levels.
By jon
September 13, 2010 7:35 AM | Link to this
Still the WORST school Dist in Ohio