Palm Beach Post about Lake Worth High School: “Project Lake Worth turns diversity into strength”.

At the end of this blog post is a question. But first consider this: the City of Lake Worth has a number of volunteer advisory boards, e.g., a C-51 Canal Advisory Board, an Electric Utility Advisory Board, a Library Board, a Recreation Advisory Board, and a Tree Board too.

But guess what this City doesn’t have? A board tasked with coordinating and working with our one charter school, the four public elementary schools, Lake Worth Middle, Lake Worth High School and the private school at Sacred Heart Catholic. And how many other private and faith-based schools are there in this City? Does anyone know?

The C-51 Canal Advisory Board has only met one single time since being formed in November 2016. Don’t you think it’s time for a school advisory board or a school coordinating board in this City?

There are four excerpts from Post reporter Scott McCabe about Project Lake Worth. Below is #1.

Without further ado. . .

A quote from the article by Mr. David Dale, former president of Project Lake Worth:

“People are wondering, ‘Have we done our job?’ Yes. But there’s so
much more to do.”

From excerpt #1, the news by former Palm Beach Post staff writer Scott McCabe (1998–2005), datelined Sunday, February 14th, 1999.

News published in the Post 19 years ago.

Click on newspaper clipping to enlarge:

 From the timeline: 1994, Wall of Unity Mural painted. “A mural designed by students depicts their vision of unity in the Osborne community.”

 
LAKE WORTH — When the Palm Beach County School Board convened in the Spring of 1995, its members expected to hear from Lake Worth residents who wanted $30 million released to save their dying high school.
     They expected frustration. The school board, after all, held up voter-approved money for 10 years. In the meantime, Lake Worth High had moved from the top of the list of schools slated for improvements to the bottom.
     What they didn’t expect was 150 residents lined up in white T-shirts with identical logos waiting their turn to talk. They talked for three meetings, tying up other school business until the board hollered uncle.
     The school board couldn’t have known what it was up against. For what had begun six years earlier as a search for a way to save the high school had flowered into a movement to save the city itself — Project Lake Worth.


Check back next week for another excerpt about Lake Worth High School and Project Lake Worth.

Now ask yourself this: Is it time for “Project Lake Worth II”?