Niles BOE to buy school

NILES — The board of education has approved a plan that will result in the purchase of the former Mount Carmel School on North Rhodes Avenue from the Youngstown Catholic Diocese, with the state covering the entire cost.

Superintendent Rocco Adduci told the board Wednesday night that the cost of $575,000 will be allocated from “swing space funds” provided by the state to help the district house students during construction of two new elementary schools and the high school.

“The state has actually given us $875,000 in swing space funds that can only be used for housing our students, and we have to use it or lose it,” Adduci said.

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