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  • Portable trailers, such as this one photographed on Friday, are still used classrooms at both Will Rogers Elementary and Puterbaugh schools within the McAlester School District. Among the many proposed changes in the upcoming Jan. 11 school bond proposition are elimination of the trailers to be replaced by new classrooms in permanent structures. These portable trailers, which are still used as classrooms at Puterbaugh and Will Rogers campuses in the McAlester School System, would be eliminated as classrooms if the capital improvements portion of the Jan. 11 school bond issue passes. The measure also includes plans to add safe rooms at the Will Rogers/Puterbaugh campus, as well as at the Emerson, Parker and McAlester High School campuses. By Kevin Harvison

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December 19, 2010

McAlester bond would move classes out of trailers

By James Beaty Senior Editor

McALESTER — Some McAlester Public Schools students continue to be taught in portable buildings which, although they have siding on them, are still trailers.

Those who are supporting the new McAlester school bond issues are ready for that to change — if a wide-ranging measure passes which supports new construction and capital improvements to MPS, along with a companion transportation measure.

Voters in the McAlester School District will decide during the upcoming Jan. 11 Special Election whether to pass the propositions.

Proposition One asks voters to pass $33,875,000 in capital  improvement bonds. The measure centers on new construction and renovation at a number of sites at McAlester Public Schools.

Proposition Two seeks passage of $1 million in transportation bonds. School administrators want to purchase eight new buses and make other transportation-related safety and communications  improvements.

Part of the money for capital improvements would be spent upgrading a number of schools, which is coupled with the administration’s plans to join students in the earlier grades at the same school, as opposed to several schools throughout the district, which is the current approach.

Among the hoped-for changes: Stop using the trailers as portable classrooms.

“There’s a couple at Puterbaugh and a couple at Will Rogers,” said McAlester Public Schools Supt. Tom Condict. “We would like to eliminate those.

“The permanent structures are more sound, more energy efficient, look better — and they’re safer,” Condict said.

A portion of the plan calls for the construction of safe rooms at Emerson, Will Rogers/Puterbaugh, Parker and at  McAlester High School.

Contact James Beaty at jbeaty@mcalesternews.com.

 

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