Beckman high school and elementary slated for Irvine area
Tustin school board approves multiple contractors for a new 40 acre Beckman High School at 3588 Bryan Ave scheduled to open for freshmen in 2004 with growth through 2006. A 15 acre Hicks Canyon Elementary will open in September 2005. Beckman campus is 57 percent complete with an Olympic 150 meter pool planned and options for solar heating to reduce operating costs.
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Tustin School Board
Irvine
Tustin Ranch
West Irvine
Arnold O. Beckman
Bryan Ave
Hicks Canyon
Central Park
Viewpark Avenues
Glynna Hoekstra
Douglas Barnhart, Inc
Beckman
Tammie Bullard
Bullard
Measure G funds eyed for Heideman Elementary repairs
Heideman Elementary in South Tustin faces $6.17 million in upgrades with no state funds, relying on Measure G bond money. The 1969 site with 39,979 sq ft building space includes 14 permanent classrooms and 10 portables, overcrowding, dilapidated asphalt, and needs for new classrooms toilets library and accessible restrooms plus safer lighting, paging and phone systems. Principal Norma Lemus says the school needs a facelift and updated utilities while district prioritizes repairs across 20 campuses with $108 million available from Measure G and state funds.
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Robert P. Heideman
Williams St
South
Tustin
Heideman
Orange County Department of Education
Norma Lemus
Stewart
Gstewart
Ocregister
Wish List for Site Improvements and Additions
A proposed list outlines upgrades including a new fire alarm system additional parking pavement replacement ADA access to the site play structure and playground equipment restroom rebuild interior and exterior painting air conditioning casework doors windows furniture lighting electrical power landscaping drainage library toilets and related improvements. The document calls for extensive modernization and expansion across facilities and services.
Alex Center reopening in Tustin as brain injury school
The Alex Center, a rare west coast school for children with acquired brain injury, will reopen Sept 8 in Tustin as The Tustin Center under a new nonprofit Brain Injury Foundation led by Scott and Cheri Tempel. Juda Carter becomes center director. 15 of 20 current students expected to return. Tempel plans a state certification filing for a non public school specializing in traumatic brain injury.
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Alex
West Coast
Tustin
N. Myrtle Ave
Scott
Cheryl Tempel
Massachusetts
Bancroft Neuro- Health
The
Brain Injury Foundation
Tempers
Samuels Foundation
Tustin Center
Scott Tempel
Cheri Tempel
Juda Carter
Carter
Cal State
Fullerton
Orange County
Tempel
State Department of Education
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