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New Marysville K-8 campus could reopen in 2012 in Southeast Portland | OregonLive.com

New Marysville K-8 campus could reopen in 2012 in Southeast Portland | OregonLive.com

New Marysville K-8 campus could reopen in 2012 in Southeast Portland

By Kimberly Melton, The Oregonian

March 31, 2010, 5:01PM
Portland Public Schools plans to rebuild Marysville K-8 School and reopen the Southeast Portland campus in January 2012.

The Portland School Board's finance, audit and operations committee approved a resolution this afternoon that would allow the district to pursue design plans for the school, which was damaged by fire in November.

The fire destroyed about a third of the school building. The district expects to receive about $4.5 million from insurance to put toward the rebuild.

But staff members estimate that rebuilding and modernizing Marysville