The campus of Chattanooga Middle Museum Magnet will get a makeover this summer as school officials prepare it to become the Normal Park Upper School.
Jill Levine, principal of Normal Park Museum Magnet, unveiled a plan today at the North Chattanooga Council of the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce to completely renovate the nearly 80-year-old building using donated labor and materials.
“We’re pairing contractors, designers, a parent, a teacher, a student and a team of volunteers for each classroom,” Ms. Levine said.
John Straussberger of the Strauss Co., a North Chattanooga construction company, already has signed on to renovate the library, Ms. Levine said.
Right now, the project is in the recruitment stage, and Ms. Levine said she is looking for additional contractors, designers and volunteers to makeover the building’s 35 classrooms.
Each team will have the week of June 23 to complete their project. On June 29, Ms. Levine will host an open house, and Hunt Nissan will award prizes for the best rooms, she said.
In December, the Hamilton County Board of Education approved a plan to combine Normal Park and Chattanooga Middle.
In August, there will be an upper and lower school, with the current Normal Park serving pre-k through third grade and the current Chattanooga Middle Museum Magnet School building housing grades four through eight. Ms. Levine will serve as principal of both campuses.
For full coverage, see tomorrow’s Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Kelli Gauthier covers K-12 education in Hamilton County for the Times Free Press. She started at the paper as an intern in 2006, crisscrossing the region writing feature stories from Pikeville, Tenn., to Lafayette, Ga. She also covered crime and courts before taking over the education beat in 2007. A native of Frederick, Md., Kelli came south to attend Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in print journalism. Before newspapers, ...
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