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Tennessee needs to invest more than $9 billion in its K-12 education infrastructure over five years, an increase of nearly 9% from an assessment done a year earlier, a new state report says.
The assessment of facility needs comes as local and state officials grapple with how to cover the rising costs of school construction, which have doubled in the last decade.
Cummings K-8 Optional School students were switched to LaRose Elementary when a library ceiling collapsed in August, and they’ll stay there through the end of the year.
"Unexpected construction delays" have lead to the decision to keep students, teachers and faculty of Cummings Elementary at LaRose after a partial roof collapse.
At a recent Whitehaven meeting, a search committee advisory member agreed with some residents that the next MSCS superintendent should be one of their own.