Parents want sustainable features at new school
Dec 12, 2007 3:22 PM
Parents and other supporters of Highlands Elementary School in Mission, Kan., are trying to raise money so that a new school being planned will have environmentally conscious enhancements. The Shawnee Mission School District
plans to tear down the existing Highlands next year and replace it with
a larger, modern facility that is scheduled to open in 2010. "Our
community’s preference for a school flooded with natural
day lighting is highly interrelated with our shared sense of value for
a facility that is environmentally responsible, efficient and a healthy
place to live and work," says the school's education foundation. The
desired enhancements to the school design include more classroom
windows and a rain garden to reduce storm-water runoff. In addition to
those sustainable features, the school community also hopes to raise
enough funds to enlarge the school's gymnasium, add an outdoor
amphitheater, and enhance the school's technology and science
equipment. The foundation's goal through 2010 is to raise $300,000.
To read more about the project, click here.
