By Antonio D. French
Filed Monday, June 5 at 12:54 PM
Members of a new group dedicated to stopping any attempt to permanently close Cleveland NJROTC High School gathered this morning at the school to present their position to the public and the press.
Debbie Irwin, of the Dutchtown South Community Corporation and the new Alliance to Save Cleveland High, said the mission of the Alliance is to assist the school district in creating a modern, safe, state-of-the-art Cleveland High School with academic excellence for its students.
Irwin said that would include helping to raise the needed funds to renovate the school. But she said the alliance would first like to get a better estimate of how much it will actually cost to make Cleveland a healthy place for students.
"We do not believe that it will cost $20 million," said Irwin referencing an estimate given by Superintendent Creg Williams. She said that figure includes $10 million to air condition the building, $9 million of which has already been funded through a bond issue.
Aldermen Dorothy Kirner (25th Ward), Craig Schmid (20th Ward) and Fred Wessels (13th Ward) attended today's event. As well as school board members Veronica O'Brien and Bill Purdy.
In an exclusive video interview with PUB DEF, Purdy gave a bit of the history of how Cleveland got in its present state of disrepair.
1 Comments:
Any chance this was Williams goal all along to get more community involvement? Perhaps he knew that a crazy idea like tearing down the building might bring people out of the woodwork. Hopefully good things come of this for Cleveland's students, and the community that surrounds it.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:49:00 AM
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