[CPEO-IRF] Ft. Lee (VA), etc. - BRAC-related school expansion

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

School crunch from Fort Lee?
Neighbors seek more funds to cope with realignment's influx

BY ANDREW PRICE
RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH
January 15, 2006

Dinwiddie County is lobbying the Defense Department and other federal 
agencies to pay for new schools to accommodate an anticipated increase 
of 7,300 personnel at Fort Lee.

Dinwiddie officials are leading the charge in the Tri-Cities area for 
the new schools to offset Base Realignment and Closure Commission 
recommendations that would nearly double Fort Lee's population.

Dinwiddie has joined with jurisdictions surrounding six other military 
bases in the Southeast and Midwest to form the Seven Rivers Military 
Coalition, which is seeking an estimated $2 billion to build the 
schools. Dinwiddie officials still aren't certain how much they would 
require.

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For the entire article see
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&%09s=1045855935258&c=MGArticle&cid=1128769323048&path=!news!education

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
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