Students at Breed Middle School will be getting a $200,000 consumer science lab next year.
The city is seeking an architect to convert the shuttered metal shop in the O’Callaghan Way school into workshop space that meets the educational needs of the 21st century.
It will house what used to be called a Home Economics program with cooking, sewing and the like.
School Superintendent Dr. Catherine Latham asked the city’s Inspectional Services Department to hire an architect whose mission would be to create the space.
Bids are due this summer and construction is expected to start next year with a projected opening in September of 2018.
The work comes on the heels of the defeat by voters in March to build a pair of middle schools. Latham has said all of the city’s middle school students should have access to the same kind of new facilities that are available at the Thurgood Marshall Middle School.
