The Washington School Board approved hiring Dan Culp, the construction manager from Carl Nelson Construction who is overseeing the new high school construction, to do preconstruction work on the renovation of the 1918 Washington High School into a middle school.
Town Manager John Curran said a decision from the Attorney General’s office regarding a protest of the awarding the contract for the construction of the new Parker Elementary School won’t impact deadlines.
Police said a 48-year-old man died after a roof collapsed at a school construction site.
The Tulare City School District has received word from the state that it will receive match funding for new school construction once funding becomes available.
A conservative group sued Gov. Ted Strickland, his chief of staff, the Ohio School Facilities Commission and others yesterday, alleging that they engaged in a pattern of corrupt activity by favoring unions in school-construction contracts.
The new school will combine Clay County High School and Lineville High School. “It’s exciting,” said Garey Reynolds, county schools superintendent. “The work that goes into it and you’re at the point of starting, I don’t have the words to describe it.”
In McCracken County, it’s time to regroup. Unexpectedly high bids sent a local school board scrambling to open a new high school on time.
Stock Photo: While Frisco ISD has no plans to open schools next fall, the district is looking into classroom additions for current high schools as well as construction projects for new schools starting in 2012.
Chicago’s Board of Education , stung by delayed aid from Governor Pat Quinn and a credit-rating downgrade, is paying almost twice as much as comparably rated schools for taxable Qualified School Construction Bonds.
