{"id":313164,"date":"2026-10-24T03:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T03:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313164\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T03:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T03:54:15","slug":"battle-brewing-in-upper-darby-township-over-school-expansion-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313164\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle brewing in Upper Darby Township over school expansion project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WPVI logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792814055_622_origin-wpvi.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, September 18, 2019<\/p>\n<p>A battle is brewing in upper Darby township between neighbors and the school district, over a planned expansion project at an elementary school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">UPPER DARBY TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; A battle is brewing in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania between neighbors and the school district over a planned expansion project at an elementary school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The district wants to spend $24 million to make changes to Aronimink Elementary School, including more classrooms, a new gym and a new parking lot to accommodate more students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">But neighbors are concerned about their tax dollars and preserving open fields.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The district plans to start the project in January.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, September 18, 2019 A battle is brewing in upper Darby township between neighbors and the school district,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[127919,127916,127917,59549,147,149,148,52433,73164,52435,114915,127918,150],"class_list":["post-313164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-127919","tag-aronimink-elementary-school","tag-aronimink-elementary-school-expansion","tag-school-expansion","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-pa","tag-upper-darby-pennsylvania","tag-upper-darby-police","tag-upper-darby-school","tag-upper-darby-school-expansion","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}