The Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) Board of Education last month discussed four potential alternatives to expanding its science and technology academy.
This presentation came after the board, earlier last year, requested that staff prepare backup plans in case the University of California, Riverside (UCR) decided to back out of a deal that would allow the district to build a new high school on university-owned land, the project fell through or if available funding was less than expected.
“This is just something that staff came up with so we could actually have a conversation and be able to extract direction and thoughts,” Orin Williams, assistant superintendent, said at the December 18 meeting. “If you don’t like any of these, we’re happy to start over and begin from the beginning.”…