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.<\/p>\n
BOE Chair Esther Fleming said the Public School System is “pressured by the existing congested conditions at Marianas High School.”<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
PSS awaits the public lands division’s approval of the site plan.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
During the construction of both new schools on Saipan, PSS also plans to upgrade the facilities at Hopwood and MHS. (MCM)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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