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Council committee holds joint school‑construction priorities letter after equity concerns
Summary
The Education, Workforce and Development Committee voted 4‑0 to hold a draft joint priorities letter to the Interagency Commission on School Construction for further review after members raised concerns that the listed projects concentrate state funding requests in the county's north.
The Prince George's County Council Education, Workforce and Development Committee on Oct. 27 discussed a draft joint priorities letter to the Interagency Commission on School Construction (IAC) and voted to hold the letter for discussion by the Committee of the Whole.
The draft letter, presented by Adrienne Albert, director of the committee, lists multi‑year modernization projects that previously received state approvals and requests additional state allocations and planning approvals for several projects. Albert said the current draft removes Suitland High School because that project “has received the maximum state allocation,” adds the William Schmidt Environmental Education Center after a state increase in its allocation, and requests planning approval for Riverdale Hills pre‑K and a Crossland High School career and technical education addition.
The matter drew sustained questions from committee members who said the list appears concentrated in the northern part of the…
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