LAUSD Celebrates Construction Kick-Off for the Harry Bridges Span School
(Wilmington, CA) Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board Member Dr. Richard Vladovic joined students, parents, teachers and the Wilmington community for a special groundbreaking ceremony to kick off the construction of the Harry Bridges Span School.
“The Harry Bridges Span School will provide overcrowding relief to four neighborhood elementary schools and one middle school,” Dr. Vladovic said. “I am proud to know the community of Wilmington is receiving the educational facilities students deserve, and by naming this school after Harry Bridges, we hope to preserve his legacy for future generations.”
Harry Bridges (July 28, 1901 – March 30, 1990) was an influential union leader in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, a longshore dock and warehouse workers’ union on the West Coast, in Hawaii and Alaska, which he helped form and lead for more than 40 years.
“This state-of-the-art neighborhood school will be designed and built to meet the needs of the surrounding community for today and for many years to come,” LAUSD Local District 8 Superintendent Linda Del Cueto said. “Today is a very good day and quite a celebration.”
The Harry Bridges Span School will serve students in kindergarten through 8th grade and is part of LAUSD’s current $19.5 billion New School Construction and Modernization Program. The goal of the program is to provide every student with the opportunity to attend a safe and healthy neighborhood school operating on a traditional, two-semester calendar. The campus will feature performing arts classrooms, a library, a multi-purpose room, a gymnasium, a food service and lunch shelter space, a central administration building, playfields and a parking structure. The school is scheduled to open in the Fall of 2012.
