by Mike Townshend
One key concern among parents has been where students would end up if the 14 months of construction does actually occur in 2011-2012.
Superintendent Maria Rice released her plan for the potential move. It would involve moving the sixth-graders to Lenape Elementary School -- but they would keep their 7:55 a.m. middle school start time.
Regular Lenape students would come in 1 1/2 hours later at 9:25 a.m. Staggering the kids' schedules like that would allow sixth-graders to use the gym, music rooms, the cafeteria and other special classrooms without conflicting with younger pupils.
Seventh- and eighth-graders would attend classes at Tillson Elementary School in the nearby Town of Rosendale.
"We would be the only students in that facility," Rice explained. Tillson's building is part of the Kingston City School District, but is currently unoccupied.
New Paltz would use $250,000 of the renovation project's $500,000 student relocation budget to refurbish the space and move furniture into the building. But that's less than half the cost of a two-classroom modular building, and it gives students the benefit of a full-blown school building, Rice said.
New Paltz United Teachers and other school union contracts would not be in breach if the district uses this relocation plan.
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