Media Advisory: San Diego Unified Breaks Ground on New Jonas Salk Elementary School tomorrow

MEDIA ADVISORY
Contact: Cynthia Reed-Porter--619- 546-3378

San Diego Unified School District Breaks Ground on New Jonas Salk Elementary School

WHAT:  Dr. Peter Salk, son of the late Dr. Jonas Salk (1914-1995), the American medical researcher best known for his discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine, will join Superintendent of Public Schools Cynthia Marten, Board President John Lee Evans and City Councilmember Lorie Zapf as San Diego Unified School District breaks ground for the new Jonas Salk Elementary School in Mira Mesa tomorrow. The school district invited students, parents, staff and community members to celebrate with them.

WHEN:  Saturday, Sept. 7 (tomorrow), 10 a.m.

WHERE: Salk Elementary School construction site 7825 Flanders Drive, San Diego 92126
Directions: From I-5 or I-15, take Mira Mesa Blvd., turn (south) on Parkdale Avenue. The entrance to the construction site is on Parkdale Avenue.
Media parking will be available on site. Enter the construction gate across from Gold Coast Drive (Parkdale and Gold Coast)

VISUALS: Presentation of colors by the Mira Mesa High School's Air Force Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps, Mira Mesa High School Quartet performing the national anthem, ceremonial groundbreaking shovel presentation, dignitaries breaking of ground with shovels and hard hats, architectural drawings/renderings of new school.

GUEST SPEAKERS/INTERVIEWS: Dr. Peter Salk, son of the late Dr. Jonas Salk; Cynthia Marten, superintendent of public schools for San Diego Unified School District; John Lee Evans, board of education president; Lorie Zapf, city councilmember, District 6; Lee Dulgeroff, executive director of Facilities Planning and Construction, John Horst, Mira Mesa Community Planning Group chair, and Ted Brengel, Mira Mesa Town Council president. (Interviews available in English and Spanish.)

BACKGROUND: Jonas Salk Elementary School is designed to serve approximately 700 kindergarten through sixth-grade students. This project represents an investment of more than $24 million into the students of Mira Mesa and the community of Mira Mesa. The school is scheduled to open September 2015.
Campus features include:
. Two-story classroom buildings
. Multipurpose building
. Special education building
. Reading specialist/learning center
. Administration building
. Lunch court shelter
. Joint-use hard-court area
. Joint-use grass playfield (to be constructed and maintained by the City of San Diego)
. Onsite student drop-off/pick-up areas
. Onsite parking
. Solar panels
. Park facilities (to be constructed and maintained by the City of San Diego)


Dr. Jonas Salk: http://www.salk.edu/about/jonas_salk.html

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Cynthia Reed-Porter, Communications Supervisor | Communications Office | San Diego Unified School District
Office: 858-637-3607 | Mobile: 619-546-3378 | E-mail: creed-porter@sandi.net



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