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9AI Star TribuneThursdayNovember 121937 "Overlapping of design and construc- Uon is something you just don do in public work," said Ted Rozeboom, the project's managing architect. "Most government bodies don't want to take that kind of risk. This school board won't know the final cost of this project until the last contract is let in May, but they're so far behind that they don have much choice. Although plans are not final, Rozeboom said the school building will look "much less institutional and more corporate; it will have much more glass and less brick. v.

liar- yOv-- That's part of the reason for a pro jected cost of $72 per square foot, which state officials say is about 10 percent above the average for Twin Cities school construction. Tom Wilson The district, however, saved on some land costs by locating the schools on a 93-acre site next to a city park, where it will build tennis courts as part of an intergovernmental partner School Continued from page 1A twice the cost of the last Twin Cities high school. How innovative? The architects say the school will look more like a hightech corporate research center. That will be appropriate, they say, for a school with its own satellite dish and mainframe computer, a school where private industry is expected to play a bigger role than ever before in Minnesota public education. Little wonder, then, that Wilson is the envy of fellow principals.

"It's everybody's dream to build your own place, spec it out and start it up," he said. "And this is going to be something at the cutting edge of education." Wilson hopes to wire all 80 classrooms in the two schools for a new generation of teaching aids: ceiling-mounted projectors that can beam videotapes or computer programs onto a big screen. "You've got to think bigger than you know," Wilson said. "A lot of this stuff hasn't been invented yet" The cost of all this is unknown, but Wilson hopes that much of it can be obtained through a partnership with a Minnesota technology company. Unisys, Cray Research and Northwest Airlines have large facilities in Eagan, and Wilson has already sought their help, as well as from 3M, Honeywell, Apple and others.

He hopes a company will design and' install much of the classroom technology free or for a bargain price. "We're trying to appeal to both their business sense, and their sense of neighbor," he said. "So far nothing is ship. I Mil Inside the schools, semi-open three-walled classrooms will allow sharing among teachers, Rozeboom said. There also will be some sharing of faculty members and facilities be tween the middle school and the high school, although Wilson said children in the two levels will seldom encounter each other.

The major exception will be when gifted students in grades six through eight take certain high school courses, he That's just one feature of a unique teaching plan that has impressed 1 1 i WW state officials. bridges across the Minnesota River have helped it become the state's fastest-growing city. It has more than 40,000 residents but no high school, meaning that some Eagan teen-agers ride a bus 14 miles one way to classes in Rosemount. Meanwhile, Rosemount High, which less than 50 years ago graduated a senior class of 11, is bursting with 2,575 students in a building designed for 2,000. The district's other high school, Apple Valley, is 450 students over its capacity of 1,800.

To alleviate this crowding, district voters authorized a $47.5 million bond issue in March. Besides the Eagan high school-middle school complex, the money will go to building a 13th elementary school, renovating the Rosemount Middle School, expanding the football stadium and buying land for future schools. According to the Minnesota Department of Education, enrollment in the district grew 54 percent to almost 16,000 in the last 10 years and is expected to increase another 54 percent to more than 24,000 by the year 2000. At that fate, the department said, the district fills a new elementary school every two years, a new middle school every seven years and a new high school every 13 years. With that in mind, Eagan High is being designed to expand from its original capacity of 1,200 to 2,000 when the need arises.

Design work by the architectural firm of Hammel Green and Abrahamson Inc. will continue even as site grading, foundation work and steel framing are being completed. WWW WW "They're trying to integrate technology and content right from the begin www ning," said Gil Valdez, manager of instructional design for the state edu cation department "It's part of the structure, not something that has to be brought in. Validated parking at Calhoun Square The same goes for the new high school's teachers. Wilson already has recruited many teachers from the district's existing schools and brought I them into the planning ot Eagan High.

That means the teachers will be certain, but we've gotten some very positive reception." The chance for a public-spirited corporation to show off its wares in a major new high school may not come again soon. About 20 Twin Cities-area high schools were built from 1969 until the last one, Eden Prairie, began construction in 1979 at a cost of $9.5 million. Since then, however, nine high schools in Minneapolis and its first-ring suburbs have been closed because of declining enrollments. Lately, though, a boom has taken hold in Eagan, as three new freeway technology rather than having it forced on them, Valdez said. "The idea is to make education more like real life," he said.

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