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LMSD FAILS ON HIGH SCHOOL MODERNIZATION

The current Lower Merion School District (“LMSD”) Board and Administration have often stated that they were elected and hired based on their agenda of building two new high schools for the District.  Now that the bids for the new Harriton High School have come in wildly over budget, it is a good time to examine where we stand with respect to high school modernization.   

Harriton Project Stalled By High Bids

By:RICHARD ILGENFRITZ

Main Line Times

03/01/2007

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ROSEMONT - For months, critics of the Lower Merion School District have been saying the new Harriton High School was too big and too expensive.
It seems now that the first round of bids have come back from potential contractors, the critics may have been right.

LMSD School Board Ignores The Wishes Of The Majority

To The Editor:

If you were one of the over 450 citizens who took the time to write commentary in opposition to the New Harriton High School and submit it to the school district last fall, Jamie Savedoff says that you are hardly representative of the desires of the school district.  To quote his words as closely as I can from tonight’s (2/26/07) board meeting, “With 40,000 voters in Lower Merion, 450 to 460 people opposing the new schools is hardly representative of the desires of the majority of the school district.” 

Taxation to Eliminate Representation

I would like to share with you the comments I made to the Lower Merion School Board at the February 12, 2007, board meeting, as my questions and their inability to provide answers should concern us all:

"I have carefully listened to Mr. Shafer’s explanation of the new financing plan, and I have carefully read the Superintendent’s “Win-Win” letter.  While the Superintendent’s characterization that the new financing plan is the result of patience and careful planning may be correct, I believe it is the result of lies that have been patiently proffered and deception that was, in fact, carefully planned.