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Two years after a roof collapse caused students and teachers to scramble for safety, a middle school in Broward County is getting major upgrades.

Timeline: Broward County schools have thus far failed deliver on promises made in the bond referendum approved by voters in 2014.

When a roof collapsed last year at Rickards Middle School in Oakland Park, a grand jury saw it as a visual symbol of everything wrong with Broward’s $800 million school renovation bond program. The construction program — approved by voters in 2014 — has been years behind schedule and more than $500 million over budget largely because of roofs, according to an April 2021 report by a statewide grand jury that was publicly released Friday.

Vickie Cartwright is making one of her first big moves as Broward’s new schools superintendent, appointing two seasoned administrators to fill two new top-level positions.

On April 25, 1979, the roof of the media center at Apollo Middle School collapsed after a major rainstorm.

/ WLRN The Twitter account for updates on SMART Bond construction projects shows roof repairs at Rickards Middle in Sept. 2020 as well as construction to renovate several rooms, like the media center, in December 2020. The Title I middle schools media center was under construction. No one was inside the media center at the time the roof started coming down. The roof partially collapsed over the media center at James S. Rickards Middle School in Oakland Park Friday morning, causing 184 student...

Students and staff evacuated from Florida school after ROOF collapsed Mary Kekatos For Dailymail.com © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Twelve people, including nine children, have been injured after a Florida middle schools roof partially collapsed on Friday morning. The incident occurred at James S Rickards Middle School, in Oakland Park, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale, around 10am.  Authorities told Local 10 News that the school principal heard two loud bangs before di...

On Friday around 10am, the roof of the media center at James S Rickards Middle School, in Oakland Park, Florida, partially collapsed due to a a water leak.