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Cyberschool bid opened

The Commonwealth Connections Academy location along Route 443 in West Penn Township will be a showpiece for the school, planners say.

Tuesday afternoon, Keith Karper of Crabtree, Rohrbaugh & Associates Architects, Mechanicsburg, opened the lone bid for the outside work for the cyberschool, which is the former J.E. Morgan Car Museum at the corner of Route 443 and Cold Spring Road. RGC Development Company, Bath, bid $194,760. CCA Director of Facilities James H. Skinner said the bid will be reviewed by the CCA board before it is officially awarded.A month ago, Quandel Construction Company, with locations in Harrisburg and Scranton, was awarded a $2.6 million contract for the interior renovations on the building. The project has been approved by West Penn Township supervisors. Skinner said that the target date for building occupancy is January 2015."This building is going to be completely transformed," Skinner said. "It's going to have a new feature for Commonwealth Connections Academy, which are Live Lesson Classrooms."Teachers will be able to do a live broadcast of their lessons, he said. CCA has sites in Pittsburgh, Lehighton, Harrisburg and other Pennsylvania locations. the West Penn location will be the first one to have the Live Lesson Classrooms.