Posted at 3:06 p.m., Friday, November 16, 2007
Lingle releases $625K for upgrades at Maui high school
Advertiser Staff
Gov. Linda Lingle has released $625,000 for the design and construction of a new portable classroom at Baldwin High School in Wailuku for the school's Special Education Occupational Skills program."Investing in the facilities used by the school's Special Education Occupational Skills program will ensure that students have a better and more functional environment in which to learn and grow and will help prepare students to be successful members of our workforce," Lingle said in a news release.
Baldwin High School's Special Education Occupational Skills program provides at-risk students with landscaping, cooking, cashiering, sewing and housekeeping instruction, as well as career guidance and community service opportunities. The program currently operates out of a Quonset hut that is beyond economical repair.
The new extended trailer will include classroom space, a kitchen, laundry room and restrooms.
Concurrent with this project is the planned removal and conversion of the cesspool being used by the existing classroom facility. Design is scheduled to begin in January 2008 and be completed in September 2008.
