School districts today are tasked with not only educating our children, but even more importantly, keeping them safe. At their Oct. 12 meeting, the Gothenburg Board of Education approved a plan being discussed for quite some time that will help achieve the latter.
The approved project, known as the Area C & D project, is at the entrance of the junior/senior high building. “Since 2016, district safety audits have identified a secure entryway as a critical safety strategy missing from the GPS campus. While the district has achieved five of six recommended safety measures, controlled single-point visitor access remains the final outstanding recommendation,” GPS Superintendent Dr. Allison Jonas explained.
Jonas said that when the renovation project on what was dubbed Area B was completed in …