Ellensburg schools superintendent recommends moving students out of middle school by 2013


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ELLENSBURG, Wash. -- Ellensburg School District Superintendent Paul Farris recommended a plan this week that would move students out of Morgan Middle School building by fall 2013.

The proposal is similar to an initial plan unveiled by Farris during a Feb. 1 community meeting about Morgan Middle School, and it would include placing a bond proposal on the ballot in February 2013. District officials earlier discussed the possibility of allowing students to remain in Morgan as late as 2015, the best-case-scenario completion date for a new middle school.

"People don't want portables, at least most people, from what I'm hearing," Farris said during an Ellensburg School Board meeting Wednesday.

Should the plan to build portable classrooms fall through, Farris' initial plan called for students in grades 7-12 to move to Ellensburg High School and for sixth-grade students to remain in the newer, more structurally sound portions of Morgan.

The Ellensburg School Board is scheduled to make a decision on the Morgan plan on Feb. 22.



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