It started first with consolidating the students from nine former neighborhood elementary schools into three new large schools - Brookwood and Mill Creek in Levittown and Keystone in Croydon. The school district is now in the second phase of its plan to upgrade its school facilities. The project will be funded through a general obligation bond issue with the state expected to cover approximately 20.5% of the expenditures. The school will have a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) learning area. The mechanical systems in the building will be replaced as will the roof, and the auditorium, cafeteria and gym areas will be modernized. The middle school track will also be reconfigured. The new plan has the buses for the middle school sharing the driveway to the nearby Mill Creek Elementary School. The work will now include a new more secure front entrance and rerouting of buses away from where parents will drop off and/or pick up their children. The project will now include a 38,000-square-foot addition, bringing the total building size to 156,490 square feet, said Danielle Hoffer, the senior project manager for SchraderGroup, the architectural firm which designed the renovations. "Change in scope of project and escalation of construction costs are the difference." Asked why the school renovations have been delayed and are now costing more than twice the original estimate, Joshua Sweigard, district business manager, said only in an email response:
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