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A Strange Idea
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Published: November 14, 2007
What with finding most of its high schools on the national "Dropout Factory" list and having a hard time accounting for money at some of its schools, you'd think the Pasco County School District would have enough on its hands. You would be wrong, judging from an idea the School Board is kicking around at the moment.
The School Board is slated to hold a workshop Nov. 20 at which members will discuss the idea of working with a private company that would build townhouses on district-owned land near James Marlowe Elementary School, in the New Port Richey area and perhaps somewhere in East Pasco. The townhouse residents would be Pasco district teachers.
According to School Superintendent Heather Fiorentino, some teachers, given what the district pays, are priced out of the Pasco County housing market. The townhouses could help the district lure teachers to here, according to Fiorentino.
Pardon us, but wouldn't just giving teachers having a hard time affording a place to live some sort of housing allowance or subsidy be a better – certainly simpler – idea than getting involved in the construction of housing during a statewide housing construction slump and a nationwide mortgage market meltdown?
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