Warminster's McDonald Elementary will keep its name and its location on Street Road and Reeves Lane in Warminster. Everything else—asbestos included—must go. Montgomery News' Natalya Bucuy reports that the new McDonald Elementary (plans for the new school shown above) will retain only its name and address as the school begins its new stage in a modern building's life cycle: asbestos abatement, demolition, and reconstruction.
The school's construction project is planned to begin shortly and will continue through the end of 2012. An earlier article about the fate of Warminter's elementary schools in The Intelligencer placed the new school's opening somewhere in early 2013, though the new article provides no updated estimate.
The soon-to-begin construction project and others are part of a plan to streamline public education in the Bucks County and Montgomery County region. Bucuy writes that “the new McDonald Elementary, along with the renovated Willow Dale Elementary School and the new Davis Elementary School, will replace the district’s current six elementary schools by consolidating them into three.”
In the same meeting in which these terms for the new schools were established, officials approved the closing Alta S. Leary Elementary School in Warminster effective this September. Any Alta S. Leary grads among us, readers? Feel free to share some fond memories in the comment section.
The school's construction project is planned to begin shortly and will continue through the end of 2012. An earlier article about the fate of Warminter's elementary schools in The Intelligencer placed the new school's opening somewhere in early 2013, though the new article provides no updated estimate.
The soon-to-begin construction project and others are part of a plan to streamline public education in the Bucks County and Montgomery County region. Bucuy writes that “the new McDonald Elementary, along with the renovated Willow Dale Elementary School and the new Davis Elementary School, will replace the district’s current six elementary schools by consolidating them into three.”
In the same meeting in which these terms for the new schools were established, officials approved the closing Alta S. Leary Elementary School in Warminster effective this September. Any Alta S. Leary grads among us, readers? Feel free to share some fond memories in the comment section.
And to the kids and parents of Warminster: congratulations! No asbestos exposure for you. Now if we could just get around to doing this in all Philly public schools, we'd be set.
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