CHS update: two classes to get temporary homes

The move will likely save the school system several hundred thousand dollars, Commerce School Superintendent James “Mac” McCoy said.

The health occupation classes include labs that require a certain amount of square footage. The art lab is also larger than a regular classroom.

If the required square footage isn’t met for health occupations, the classes aren’t eligible for state funding.

While the health occupation program at the new school will be state-of-the art, according to McCoy, the state insisted the health occupation classes relocate to a 2,000-plus square foot space in the interim.

The system would have to buy two modular units for the one class. To avoid that cost, the board opted to move those classes to the portion of the elementary school that housed the old vocation, technology, band and art rooms.