Published on Monday, August 25, 2008
By MICHELLE L. KLAMPE
When students in the Alvord Unified School District showed up for the first day of school Monday, many of them were assigned to classrooms that had never seen students before.
After two years of construction, more than 100 classrooms and four new libraries were completed over the summer in the Alvord district, just in time for the start of the new school year.
The new facilities at six elementary schools and La Sierra High School are part of a $150 million effort to replace aging and outdated portable buildings with permanent structures, spruce up the campuses and improve the learning environment for students.
The additional buildings are key to the district's move from a multiple-track, year-round schedule to a traditional school schedule for the 2008-09 school year, said Alvord Superintendent Wendel Tucker
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