12 May 2005
Bond Program Additions Getting Portables On The Move Out Of The District
DALLAS—During the 2001-02 campaign to pass the state's largest education bond program, the Dallas Independent School District made note that its nearly 1,900 portable classrooms would stretch from downtown Dallas all the way to Plano if they were set side-by-side along the Dallas Tollway.
As promised, the district seeks to eliminate half of its portable inventory through the 2002 bond program, and on Friday morning during a news conference, Deputy Superintendent Larry Groppel will take a step in that direction by instructing construction crews to begin demolition of at least four of them on the K. B. Polk Center for Academically Talented and Gifted campus, 6911 Victoria Avenue, beginning at 10:30 a.m.
Bond construction and demolition crews are finishing up an addition to the school that has eliminated the need for any portables on the campus, freeing up a significant portion of playground and sporting areas on the grounds.
Groppel will provide updated information about the district's portable classroom reduction efforts, identifying how many will be put up for auction, relocated, and how many are too old and dangerous to move and must be destroyed between now and the end of next summer.