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Polk County flags Babson Park first-grade building as unsafe; portables placed while engineering review proceeds

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Trustees received a school update that Polk County deemed a first-grade building at Babson Park unsafe after staff observed cracked trusses. Two portables were brought in for displaced classes; county engineering plans are pending and the building could be out of use for approximately eight months, administrators said.

Babson Park Elementary’s first-grade building was declared unsafe by the Polk County School Board after school staff discovered split and cracked roof trusses during a summer inspection, administrators told the Lake Wales Charter Schools Board of Trustees on Sept. 22. Principal and system staff…

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