EDUCATIONBRIEFS RISDapproves guaranteed price for newLakeHighlandsMiddle School
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of former Superintendent Jeannie Stone. Branum told Community Impact Newspaper earlier this year that she plans to apply for the permanent superintendent position when it is posted. As part of its presentation, O’Hanlon, Demerath & Castillo assured the board that any new trustees elected in the May 7 general election will have the same input into the selection process for the next superintendent as the existing members, Trustee Megan Timme said. Harris is unopposed in her re-election bid for the District 4 seat. Three candidates are vying for the single-member District 2 seat, including incumbent Eron Linn, Sherry Clemens and Vanessa Pacheco. The three candidates running in the single-member District 5 race are Kile Brown, Rachel McGowan and Jan Stell. That seat has been vacant since Sept. 24, when former board President Karen Clardy resigned in a letter to Stone and the other trustees.
BY JACKSON KING
Work on Lake Highlands Middle School could begin as early as this summer with the facility to open by August 2024, Hayes said. BUILDING A NEWSCHOOL Richardson ISD is moving forward
RICHARDSON ISD The board of trustees unanimously approved a guaranteed maximum price of a little more than $81 million for the rst phase of construction of the new Lake Highlands Middle School during its April 11 meeting. The rst phase of the project was approved at a price of $81.17 million and will consist of the construction of a three-story middle school on the existing site that will house 1,500 students. The second phase is slated to involve demolishing the existing school buildings and rede- veloping that area for the campus. “We are very excited for this,” Assistant Superintendent Sandra Hayes said. “This is the rst time that the district has taken on creating a new school since the early 2000s with the exception of Memorial Park Academy. We’re very excited to get this o and running.”
BY WILLIAM C. WADSACK
RICHARDSON ISD The board of trustees picked law rm O’Hanlon, Demerath & Castillo to assist with the search for the district’s next superintendent during its April 19 meeting. O’Hanlon, Demerath & Castillo was one of three search rms that did presentations for trustees on how they would go about assisting the district during a previous meeting April 13. “I feel like they hear our commu- nity,” board President Regina Harris said of the rm. “I feel like they were actually a piece of RISD, and [that] is absolutely what we need right now.” RISD interim Superintendent Tabitha Branum was appointed in December following the resignation
with work on the new Lake Highlands Middle School. $81.17M
$94M
Guaranteed maximum price
District budget for the project
1,500
2024
Students to be housed
Estimated completion date
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