The Board of Education unanimously approved during a board meeting last week renovations to the current Hopwood Middle School campus. <\/p>\n
BOE chair Janice Tenorio, board members Marylou Ada, Phillip Mendiola-Long, Herman Atalig, and Andrew Orsini approved the renovation of the 19 classrooms at Hopwood that are still standing after Super Typhoon Yutu destroyed much of the campus in 2018. A total of 35 classrooms were destroyed in the Yutu onslaught.<\/p>\n
If all goes according to plan with the renovation project, Hopwood students are expected to go back to their Chalan Piao campus in the next school year.<\/p>\n
There was also a motion to approve the proposal to relocate Hopwood to As Perdido, the site intended for the construction of the new Hopwood Middle School campus, but the board decided against making a decision on that matter at the moment. <\/p>\n
Orsini explained to the board that they would need to get input from parents first before deciding whether to relocate Hopwood or not.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy understanding is that most of its students reside near that area, so I don\u2019t know how it will work out as far as the logistics, including bus transportation, traffic, and other things, are concerned, if Hopwood will be relocated,\u201d Orsini said.<\/p>\n
Atalig said the BOE still has 16 months to provide the Federal Emergency Management Agency a plan for a new Hopwood campus so there is still time to discuss any relocation. FEMA would provide the Public School System $23 million for that project.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we need to identify the location and move forward. We have to agree whether to rebuild the school at its original site or at different location,\u201d Atalig said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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