Superintendent: renovations nearly complete at multiple elementary schools; field work trailing

Superintendent Doctor Collins told the Board of Education on Aug. 14 that the district’s school renovation projects are approaching completion and that staff will provide campus tours at upcoming meetings. Emerson’s punch list work is underway and teachers are moving into spaces; Washington and Lincoln also have substantial work finished, with Lincoln described as having been “gutted all the way down to the core” and extensively rebuilt. Collins said the district will present walkthroughs at September and October board meetings and that Field School will be the focus of a February meeting once turnover is complete.