SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (WCBD) – Dorchester District Two leaders are adjusting their long-term facilities plan after delays in a major housing development changed the timeline for a new elementary school.

The district originally planned to build a new elementary school in the Yerby Tract development, but construction in that area has not begun. Superintendent Chad Daugherty said the land is still years away from being ready for a school.

“We don’t feel like we should be building a school in the Yerby right now because we would have all those houses that would not be built out,” Daugherty said. “We’d have to bus students in that don’t even live in that area.”

Instead, the district plans to use those referendum dollars to add space at schools already serving growing neighborhoods. The new propo

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