Residents Push for Eastport Elementary School Expansion
The school's teachers, parents and students say overcrowding is negatively impacting the children's capacity to learn.
About two dozen people lobbied Anne Arundel County's school board to consider expanding Eastport Elementary at its second public hearing about the capital budget for 2014. Superintendent Kevin Maxwell's proposed budget includes a $1.01 billion operating budget and $240 million capital budget. It does not include any money for the 103-year-old school to expand. "We've grown significantly faster than anyone could have ever dreamed," said Sarah Robertson, a teacher at the school. She said the school is already at 104 percent capacity and projected a capacity of 113 percent by 2015. Bob Mosier, a spokesman for county schools, disagreed. "The school is at about 86 percent capacity," Mosier said. "Some folks quibbled last night over what they …
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Natalie BP
10:08 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
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