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DeSoto updates new high school construction; district pauses health-department supply giveaway amid funding uncertainty
Summary
Superintendent and board members reported that crews poured the new high school's first floor and that finishing is expected by summer if funding holds. The district said it will not partner with the health department for this year's school-supply giveaway because of budget constraints and federal funding uncertainty.
Dr. Bennett briefed the DeSoto County School Board at its April 28 meeting on two operational matters: progress at the new high school construction site and changes to this year's school-supply giveaway.
"Yesterday morning, they started pouring the 1st Floor," Dr. Bennett said, reporting that plumbing is in and that work on the agriculture building and the performing-arts center is moving forward. He said crews expect the project to move into…
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