Three schools planned

New Highline schools, whose construction funding has already been approved by voters, will be built as planned.

A front-page Oct. 29 Times/News article gave the mistaken impression that no more schools will be built in the near future because district officials have decided not to place a new bond measure on the March ballot.

A new Marvista Elementary in Normandy Park is scheduled to open in September. Students, teachers and staff are scheduled to move into a new Parkside Elementary in Des Moines in the winter of 2009/2010. The district is also planning to open a new McMicken Heights Elementary in SeaTac in Sept. 2010.

The Marvista and Parkside projects are funded through a previously approved bond. McMicken Heights will be rebuilt using state matching funds.

A front-page caption under a photograph of Midway Elementary School in Des Moines also mistakenly implied that Midway and Shorewood Elementary in Burien would be the last schools built until a new bond is passed.