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Article: School Board's Seven Locks Plan Rejected by County Council
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 12, 2006
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The Montgomery County Council rejected a plan yesterday to build
an elementary school in Bethesda, handing School Superintendent Jerry
D. Weast a rare defeat and further straining relations between the
council and school board.
County Council members denied a $3.3 million budget request that
would have gone toward construction of a 640-student elementary
school on Kendale Road to replace the much smaller Seven Locks
Elementary School campus. Weast has seldom been challenged on his
leadership of the state's largest school system.
"I support [the superintendent's] initiatives generally and
support the budget," said council member Howard A. Denis (R-Potomac-
Bethesda). "But you can't get ...