The Dallas Independent School District school board approved $52 million in repairs for South Oak Cliff High School Thursday evening.
Parents and community members supporting the school showed up in force at a Dallas ISD board meeting Thursday night to fight for funding.
The school is in desperate need of repair, with suspected gas leaks and leaking roofs among the many problems.
Many people have been demanding a new school, but because that's not likely to happen any time soon, community leaders and others threw their support behind a plan to spend $52 million to completely renovate the current building.
That's $12 million more than what was last proposed, as part of the $1.6 billion bond package approved by voters last year.
"Our children had to exit South Oak Cliff High School because of a gas leak," the Rev. Frederick Haynes, of Friendship West Baptist Church, told Dallas ISD board members. "I'm going to squeak as long as our children attend schools with asbestos and black mold. I'm going to squeak."
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The plan drew some opposition from people representing other Dallas schools who argue South Oak Cliff is getting more than its fair share.
"Other schools are going to go without what they need. And they've been ranked that they have more need than South Oak Cliff," said Ken Barth, a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School. "So you're taking away from one to appease another."
