Twelve students, two per grade chosen by school officials, donning small hardhats and size-appropriate red shovels, dug into a large pile of dirt where a decades-old playground once stood to mark the start of an $18.5 million renovation and expansion of the school. The project calls for the addition of five classrooms, along with a general music room, new lockers for fourth- and fifth-graders, special education resource rooms, an expanded kitchen area, and a new performance platform/instrumental music classroom space.
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