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New Schools Coming Our Way
By Adelita Romero, Editor
Have you heard the news? By the year 2002, two new schools are
going to be opening
in the district. Located in Rancho Cucamonga and South Ontario, other schools
will be allowed to transfer some of their students to these new sites to
help ease the over-crowdedness.
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They are being built because schools are experi-encing an influx of students
as the community grows. Our schools are only built for 2,500 students,
but most of them have over 3,000 students currently enrolled, and that
number is increas-ing. For example, CHS alone has just under 3,500 students.
For that reason, the school board with the community’s financial support
has decided to build these new schools.
But who is paying for this, you ask? A year ago the community decided to pass
a bond for 128 million dollars, in which the state will be paying 40% and
the schools 60%. Each school will cost 50 million dollars to build, so
the remaining money will be used to modernize the other six high schools
in the community.
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Displayed at the district office are the complete campus
plans for
Rancho Cucamonga's new high school. Architects designed similar plans
for
the two new schools; however each has their own unique touches.
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So far, the new schools are still in the design process; construction isn’t
expected to begin until March of 2000. Both schools will take up to twenty-six
months to build, so they won’t officially open until September of 2002.
Each school will have no seniors its first year, since the school board has
already decided that it is only fair to allow the seniors to graduate from
their own school. The rest of the students will be selected after the school
boundaries are drawn in 2001.
“I’m very pleased with the way everything is working out,” says District Superintendent
Mr. Cadwallader. The principals haven’t yet been chosen, but by May
of 2001, each school will have a principal, who will have one year to put
his or her staff together before the schools open.
For the time being, these new schools will be enough to reduce the over-crowdedness
in our schools. Names for the new schools have not yet been selected, although
the school board is collecting ideas. If you have any, please feel free
to let Principal Brodie know before the school board makes its final
decisions in December.
Like Mr. Cadwallader says, “It is a very interesting situation trying to build
these new schools.” Hopefully it will be as interesting to all those who
will have the chance to spend their high school years in one of them. |
