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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Superintendent recommended spending $43-65M to build a 725 seat ES at Reed.  There is a predicted deficit of about 1,400 seats,

He also suggested spending only $33M on HS seats to give us only 1,200 of the predicted deficit of 2,775 seats.

At the previous closed SB meeting, the FAC told the SB to consider whether Reed would be a neighborhood or choice school.  No decision was made.

I'm hoping that someone on the SB or FAC spoke up and said how it was nonsense to be spending that much on and ES when the HS situation is much more dire.  Put the $$$ into the HS seats.[/quote]

Isn't the issue that there is no site to build a new high school on? The money they are spending is to add seats to the existing locations for HS seats. If they had somewhere to build a HS, surely they would. [/quote]

The high school capacity issue is not just land.  It is just as much a bonding issue.  Building a new comprehensive high school would use virtually all of the CIP money available this round.  I say that as someone who thinks the looming high school crisis should take priority over just about everything else. How is it that we can spend $100M on a building to house essentially only a small middle and high school choice program yet only $33 M on seats to deal with a projected 2,775 high school seat deficit?[/quote]

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