Parents and Friends for Tacoma Public Schools will discuss middle schools at a public forum at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at King’s Books, 218 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma.
Parents and Friends for Tacoma Public Schools will discuss middle schools at a public forum at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at King’s Books, 218 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma.
The discussion will center on why Tacoma switched to the middle school system many years ago, and how that change has impacted education in Tacoma. It also will explore whether a junior high, K-8 or other grade configuration might work here. For more information, go online to PFTPS.org.
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Wilson High School opened in the fall of 1958, and the old sections are a crazy quilt of patches and fixes. The Tacoma School District estimates it would take $40 million to complete its reconstruction. What the school hopes to gain, should Tacoma voters approve a $500 million bond request Feb. 12, is equity for the entire campus, and equity with the district’s other comprehensive high schools. The bond would rebuild or remodel 14 Tacoma schools, half of them built in the 1920s or earlier.
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