Laurel Board of Education updating elementary schools

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February 9, 2010

Anonymous The Times-Tribune Tue Feb 09, 2010, 09:00 AM EST

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer

Expansion of Bush and Cold Hill elementary schools was discussed at Monday’s Laurel County Board of Education meeting.

Kevin Cheek of Sherman, Carter & Barnhardt Architects brought preliminary floor plans for the expansion and updating.

At Bush Elementary School on KY 80 east of London, eight new classrooms will be constructed, four on each end of the school’s wings.

Three classrooms will be added to the front of Cold Hill Elementary School on KY 192, west of London.

Heating, ventilation and air conditioning will be modernized at both schools, new basketball floors will be placed in the gymnasiums, and security entrances will be added at both schools.

In other school construction projects already underway, upgrading of North Laurel High, Colony Elementary, Keavy Elementary and Johnson Elementary are well underway and close to schedule, Cheek reported.

In other business, the board agreed at the request of the Local Planning Committee to change the priority of the new alternative/vocational school from category 1A to 2A in an effort to retain funding already available. It would put the development and construction into the next two years.

The board also approved the Family Resource Youth Centers’ continuation grant for 2011 and 2012.

It also approved two preschool special education positions and a district special education teacher position.

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