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The Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded an $86 million grant to the Tinker Pre-K through grade 8 school that serves children of military members stationed at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.
The grant will fund improvements to the school’s campus, expand capacity and enhance learning experiences for kids in preschool through eighth grade.
The grant represents the bulk of the entire project, a nearly $108 million plan to rebuild and expand Tinker. It will alleviate facility deficiencies that landed the school at No. 60 on the 2019 Deputy Secretary of Defense’s “Public Schools on Military Installations Priority List.”
– Janelle Irwin, Florida Politics