ORANGE : School Board OKs Portable Classrooms
A plan to use portable classrooms to help relieve anticipated overcrowding in the Orange Unified School District has been approved by the school board for the 1990-91 school year.
A total of 19 temporary classrooms will be installed at eight schools by mid-August, at an annual cost to the district of about $117,500.
Portables will be installed at Canyon High School and Cambridge, Chapman Hills, Fairhaven, Lampson, Panorama, Sycamore and West Orange elementary schools. In addition, two portables will be moved from El Modena High School to Fletcher Elementary School, said Skip Roland, acting assistant superintendent for elementary education.
Roland said that since the classrooms can be moved as needed, they are “an investment in future planning in addition to an immediate solution to our housing problem.”
A school board survey of the community, residents and school employees found that most of the 3,800 people who responded preferred portable classrooms to busing, year-round schools or changes in district boundaries.
The board expects to have reports this fall on projected enrollment and ways to handle it. Implementation of a long-range plan should begin by the 1991-92 school year, Roland said in a report to the board.
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