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MARCH 3, 2017, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A7 UPGRADE, continued from Page A1 standard,” Wolfe said. A subcommittee working on the question of whether to build a new high school or in- crease capacity at existing schools jettisoned the new high school idea. “Even if you went out for a new high school, there are still core infrastructure needs (at other schools) that need to be addressed,” said Mark Shipman, a member of the task force. Even though building a new school would be cheaper on paper, there would still be about $100 million in additional infrastructure work at other schools needs to be completed making it a more costly option in the end, Wolfe said. Two members of the task force expressed reservations about the fi nal recommendation of expanding capacity. Task force member Lloyd Chapman and Steve Chambers said is- sues of equity are a major concern at larger schools. “Many of the studies I looked at talked about incremental differences when you in- crease populations. At lower socioeconomic levels, the academic results go down,” Cham- bers said. Chapman had reservations about moving forward on a plan without more detailed anal- ysis of how expansion would be accomplished at each school. “I want to make sure we know how we would do things at North and South, and what do we do if we can’t (expand),” Chapman said. North Salem and South Salem high schools are two of the most landlocked campuses in the district. (Keizertimes will have a more in-depth look at the way rising enrollment numbers are af- fecting Keizer schools in the March 10 issue.) and McNary. Both schools have grown well beyond their buildings’ capacity, even with portable classroom units stationed at each site. McKay is at 135 percent of its capacity without portables, McNary is at 119 percent without portables. Those fi gures drop precipitously with the use of portable classrooms, but portables do not address crowding in communal spaces like cafeterias, libraries, gyms and auditoriums. To address the issue for the next decade, the task force is recommending increasing the ca- pacity of fi ve district high schools from 2,000 students to 2,200 students. West Salem High School would be the only high school exempt from the increase. That’s in addition to im- provements needed at a throng of elementary and middle schools (feeders schools) whose populations pool at the high school level. During the fi nal task force meeting, discus- sions were wide-ranging and included top- ics like seismic upgrades, the need for further Americans with Disabilities Act compliance, and addressing specifi c classroom needs such as science labs and career technical education. If voters approve a general obligation bond, teams would be assembled at each targeted school to plan the way forward. On the topic of seismic upgrades Wolfe said the district is concerned with minimizing the loss of life over saving the buildings for reuse. “We’re not an organization like a hospital that needs to keep operating in an emergency. (Schools) aren’t built to the highest seismic DOG, continued from Page A1 Children’s Hospital in Port- land for a battery of tests in the following days. Type 1 diabetes is the result of the body not producing enough insulin. It’s an autoim- mune condition in which the immune system mistakenly at- tacks cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. Insulin con- trols the amount of glucose/ sugar in the blood stream. Diagnosis means constantly checking blood sugar levels and injections of insulin to modulate one’s glucose levels. The diagnosis put Lauren’s family into a tailspin for a few months. “All we did was eat out be- cause we could look at a web- site and fi nd out how many (blood glucose) points every- thing was worth. 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