The three high schools that remain to be updated in the district’s decade-plus modernization push, which has been financed by multi-million dollar bond measures approved by voters, could be completely rebuilt or renovated for almost half a billion dollars each, according to a proposal put forth by Portland Public Schools staff just six weeks ago.
Superintendent Kimberlee Armstrong said Monday that the startling figures raised eyebrows because Jefferson High School in Northeast Portland, Cleveland High School in Southeast Portland, and Ida B. Wells High School in Southwest Portland would have easily been among the most costly school building projects in the nation, with projected construction costs of $490 million, $450 million, and $435 million, respectively.
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