September 24, 2012

REP. GENGA APPLAUDS GOODWIN COLLEGE'S GROUNDBREAKING
FOR THIRD MAGNET SCHOOL

State Rep. Henry Genga praised Goodwin College officials for their vision and dedication to education as they broke ground for its third magnet school on or near its East Hartford campus.

“For the third time this year, we are about to witness another groundbreaking for a new magnet school here in East Hartford,” Genga said. “If Goodwin has any more groundbreakings, we just may have to ask them to build a new facility for making shovels.”

Genga joined other state, local and college officials as educators and students tossed shovelfuls of earth for the new Pathways to Technology school to be operated by the City of Hartford school system. The $40 million facility will be built on Pent Road. The school is currently located in Windsor.

The new school, which will be renamed the Pathways Academy of Technology and Design, will be completed sometime between 2013 and 2014. It will be an 80,000-square-foot, four-story academy with laboratory space and updated equipment to support its technology-based focus.

In the past year, Goodwin College started construction of two other magnet schools on or near its campus: an early childhood school on Willowbrook Road and the Connecticut River Academy, a high school.

Genga said the Pathways Academy is an unprecedented success story of development that will bring new resources to East Hartford.

“The success we are seeing here is the direct result of a growing partnership between Hartford and East Hartford,” Genga said.

“On behalf of all of the citizens of East Hartford, I would like to personally thank Goodwin College President Mark Scheinberg and the Goodwin College family for having the vision to imagine East Hartford as a center for education and new ideas in central Connecticut,” Genga said.