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Montgomery to Replace Walt Whitman High;Funds to Construct New School Are Scarce

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19871111
Author:Claudia Levy

The Montgomery County school board voted unanimously yesterday to replace rather than remodel the 25-year-old Walt Whitman High School, a sprawling, 17-level facility that is plagued with structural problems and is largely inaccessible for the disabled.

But the chairman of the county's legislative delegation warned later that a decision to build a new school in an affluent area of the county is "not going to play well in Annapolis," where Montgomery has to compete with other fast-growing jurisdictions for limited state school construction money.

Building a new Whitman "may be fully ...

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