Maryland district reduces use of portable classrooms

The Montgomery County (Md.) school system has begun to wean itself off portable classrooms. The number of portables in use countywide fell about one-third to 462 this fall, down from the 2005 peak of 685. Superintendent Jerry D. Weast plans to use the district's capital budget to trim the number to 256 by 2012.

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