Thanks to Jie Ming parent Brian Lam, who emailed to tell me that the school, in addition to gettin g anew building, has also expanded from three Kindergarten classes to four.
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Some 33,000 students and 6,000 employees return to school Tuesday as St. Paul Public Schools continues to build new or renovate old learning spaces across the city.
Seven elementary schools serving 2,500 kids have wrapped up construction projects and work is ongoing at three other schools.
“There’s no way you can drive through the city of St. Paul and not see some construction happening for our students,” Chief Operating Officer Jackie Turner said.
The school board voted in December 2015 to double what it spends on deferred building maintenance, to $60 million a year. At the same time, the district has been updating its schools with more natural light, security and technology upgrades, new playgrounds, more welcoming entryways and early learning classrooms.
Schools opening Tuesday with major construction behind them include St. Anthony Park, Horace Mann and Highland Park elementary schools and the dual campus preK-8 Linwood-Monroe.
Jie Ming Mandarin Immersion Academy just moved out of Hamline Elementary and into the Homecroft building in the Highland Park neighborhood. Homecroft had housed the RiverEast therapeutic school but that program has moved to a new building east of Como Park Senior High.
Construction is ongoing at Adams Spanish Immersion and Humboldt and Como Park high schools.
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From The Midway Monitor
By JESSICA KOPP
After five years of sharing a space with Hamline Elementary, Jie Ming Mandarin Immersion Academy will begin the 2018-19 school year in a new space. Hamline Elementary and Jie Ming Principal Bobbie Johnson will move with the program she created to the former Homecroft Elementary building, 1845 Sheridan Ave. We wish her and the whole Jie Ming community all the best in their new home!
With Johnson’s departure, Hamline Elementary welcomes new leadership to the building— well, kind of new leadership. After three years as Hamline’s Assistant Principal, Kristin Reilly will become Hamline’s new principal and Jamal Abdur-Salaam will join our community from John A. Johnson Elementary as Assistant Principal. We’re fortunate to have these talented and experienced leaders guiding Hamline’s next chapter.
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It’s been in the works for a long time…
Jie Ming’s move to Highland Park pushed back a year
From: The Star-Tribune
By Anthony Lonetree
NOVEMBER 3, 2016
Two St. Paul schools that were slated to have new homes next fall now are expected to stay in their current buildings for at least another year.
Tom Parent, the district’s facilities director, told the school board this week that complications in talks involving one of the school sites will require pushing back the proposed relocations of Jie Ming Mandarin Immersion Academy and RiverEast Elementary and Secondary to the 2018-19 school year.
The district is planning to move RiverEast from Highland Park to a former industrial site on the North End, and to relocate Jie Ming from the Hamline-Midway area to the current RiverEast building.
First, however, the district must negotiate the removal of a deed restriction that bars nonindustrial uses on the North End site, and that has taken longer than expected, Parent said.
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