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Colorado School District Won't Tear Down Columbine High School

Reuters

   DENVER - Colorado school officials Wednesday abandoned a $60 million
   proposal to raze and rebuild Columbine High School in an effort to
   discourage unwanted attention at the site of one the deadliest school
   shootings in U.S. history.

   The superintendent of Jefferson County Public Schools, Jason Glass,
   last month floated the idea of demolishing and rebuilding Columbine in
   a letter to staff, students, parents and members of the surrounding
   Denver suburb of Littleton, Colorado.

   After receiving community response via an online survey, Glass said
   Wednesday that the plan would not go forward.

   "It is clear to me that no consensus direction exits to rebuild the
   school," Glass said in a written statement.

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