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"Thursday, officials broke ground on a new elementary school in New Orleans East.Watch reportThe new Lake Forest Elementary Charter School will be the first state-of-the-art elementary school in the area.The Orleans Parish School Board held the groundbreaking ceremony for the new 110,000-square-foot school Thursday morning on Lake Forest Boulevard, which the board purchased from St. Stephen Full Gospel Church.The public charter school was authorized by the board in January 2006 and will feature 30 core classroom, serving pre-K through eighth grade.School Board President Ira Thomas said the school will be the highest quality school ever built in the area. It will feature three science labs, two special education classrooms, a media center and a large performing arts room.The Federal Emergency Management Agency is funding the $34 million project.The original school was established in 1998 with the name Lake Forest Montessori School. It thrived until it flooded during Hurricane Katrina.As Lake Forest Montessori School, CEO Mardele S. Early said the school was the first to reopen after the storm. The school received the National Blue Ribbon School Award for excellence in education from the U.S. Department of Education.The new school is expected to be completed by late July 2015 and ready for the following school year."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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