ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) – The Roanoke City School Board is changing course on how to spend millions meant to relieve overcrowding at the city’s high schools, voting instead to move that money into a contingency fund and building repairs.
It comes as the superintendent warns the buildings are already holding hundreds more students than they were built for and said the growth is driven by families choosing Roanoke City schools.
Roanoke City’s two high schools were completely rebuilt nearly twenty years ago and over capacity. Superintendent Dr. Verletta White said there are hundreds more students than the buildings can hold, and it didn’t happen overnight. She calls it a “good problem” because families keep choosing the division, but she said the day-to-day impact is real for students and teachers. She has been fighting for funding to get learning cottages as fix for the overcrowding…