By ETHAN SHOREY Valley Breeze Managing Editor
PAWTUCKET – Students returning for the 2019-2020 school year next week will notice facility upgrades “touching every school,” including bathroom upgrades in some schools, said interim Supt. Cheryl McWilliams. It’s all part of a comprehensive effort to create optimal environments for learning.
McWilliams says she is looking forward to getting started on her first school year as top school administrator in the city, honoring the good work of the past few years under former Supt. Patti DiCenso and building on it.
Education is about more than a number on a page, she told The Breeze, and she plans to continue the commitment Pawtucket has had to improving its facilities. This summer has featured plenty of work toward creating safe, dry and warm places for students to learn, including ongoing health and safety upgrades.
Students at Winters Elementary School will be bused to the swing space at the Pawtucket Annex on Central Avenue. Winters will be replaced with a new school, the first new elementary project for the city in many years, and Baldwin Elementary will follow that.
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