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Education board wants new high school project hastened
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Posted on Sep 30 1999
The Board of Education is seeking to start “as soon as possible” the construction of a new high school which will be built on Capitol Hill.
BOE Chair Esther Fleming said the Public School System is “pressured by the existing congested conditions at Marianas High School.”
“We intend to proceed with the construction of the new high school in the most expeditious manner as possible,” Fleming said in a Sept. 28 letter to Public Lands Director Bertha C. Leon Guerrero.
Fleming is asking Guerrero to provide the board with an update on the status of the Division of Public Land’s research on the 10-hectare land on Capitol Hill which PSS seeks to acquire for the high school project.
PSS plans to build the new high school near the Governor’s Office, but the site is not one of the properties assigned to the education agency.
PSS awaits the public lands division’s approval of the site plan.
MHS is the only public high school on Saipan, and the continuing increase in the student population has called for the construction of a new one.
Aside from the new high school, PSS is also planning to build a new junior high school in Kagman III to help ease the student population at Hopwood Junior High School in San Antonio.
The CIP Facility Specialists office of PSS earlier said that the new high school on Capitol Hill is designed to accommodate a gymnasium as well as track and field.
During the construction of both new schools on Saipan, PSS also plans to upgrade the facilities at Hopwood and MHS. (MCM)
