Three Montgomery County schools will get new
artificial turf athletic fields as part of a legal settlement that will
provide field access to the county’s largest recreational youth soccer
organization.
Montgomery school officials
announced the agreement Thursday, saying Montgomery Soccer Inc. will
contribute as much as $5.2 million toward the construction of fields at
Walt Whitman High School, Albert Einstein High School and Julius West
Middle School.
In return, MSI, a
nonprofit with more than 900 teams and nearly 15,000 youth players
countywide, will get access to the fields when the schools are not using
them...
...The plan comes two years after MSI sued the school system, claiming
school officials used a flawed and unlawful process to grant the use of
fields “to elite clubs that serve only a limited fraction — the
wealthiest — of the County’s youth.”...
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