Jordan School District Growth will be Costly

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(KCPW News) By 2016, student population in the Jordan School District is expected to balloon by 25,000. Superintendent Barry Newbold, says the growth will cost nearly a billion dollars and that the money will need to come from a variety of sources:

"Portable classrooms are a possibility. A very unpopular idea but one that is certainly available to the board of education is the whole idea of double sessions. We could literally double the housing capacity of the district by placing all the schools on double sessions."

Newbold plans on enlisting the state legislature's aid to help with the financial crunch:

"There are several things that the legislature could do to help. They currently offer for rapidly growing districts in the state- they provide about $30 million through what is called the capital outlay foundation program, where rapidly growing districts get a portion of those dollars based on a formula."

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