By WHITNEE ICE
St. Joseph Post
The old Lake Contrary Elementary School building might become a new early childhood learning center for the St. Joseph School District.
St. Joseph Schools superintendent Doug Van Zyl says this is beneficial for students and staff.
"This allows our staff to work together collaboratively, how it allows them to meet the needs of our students together as a team instead of split apart," Van Zyl tells St. Joseph Post.
Van Zyl says there will also be more room for students to attend at the new location.
"It also expands, if I remember correctly, the number of students by about another 140 additional students would have the opportunity to have access to early learning in our community," says Van Zyl.
Van Zyl says the goal is to have the center ready for this fall.
"Our facilities people believe that they can get in there, get the facility up and running the way it needs to with the dollars and the time that they have so hopefully this fall we'll have everything ready to go and we'll have that early learning center at Lake Contrary," says Van Zyl.
Van Zyl says the school will be updated and renovated with federal dollars, not tax dollars.