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Holyoke voters being asked for $54 million to replace aging middle schools

Posted on Friday, September 27th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: DUSTY CHRISTENSEN, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Date: 9/28/2019
Link: Complete Article

HOLYOKE — When temperatures soar outside, classrooms inside William R. Peck Middle School can get even hotter.

Andrea Salvas, the assistant principal at the school, which serves students in grades four through eight, remembers seeing teachers with sweat soaking through their shirts on the first day of school this year. And her thoughts jumped to how students felt in that heat.

“The children can not engage in learning if it’s stifling in the classrooms,” Salvas said.

Salvas spoke Tuesday while giving the Gazette a tour of Peck, situated off Northampton Street near Crosier Field. The school is one of two in the district — together with H.B. Lawrence Elementary School on Cabot Street — that could be replaced if voters on Nov. 5 approve building two 550-student middle schools.

The project would receive up to $75.8 million in funding from the Massachusetts School Building Authority, but residents would have to approve a Proposition 2½ debt-exclusion override to cover the remaining $54 million estimated to fund the project. Voting “yes” would send the project to the City Council, which would vote on issuing a bond. Voting “no” would mean the city would decline the state money and wouldn’t build the new schools.

Continue Reading at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: H.B. Lawrence Elementary School, Holyoke Middle Schools, Holyoke Public Schools, William R. Peck Middle School

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