{"id":236378,"date":"2021-08-10T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waltonglobal.wpengine.com\/jp\/?p=236378"},"modified":"2022-02-08T14:53:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T21:53:14","slug":"john-s-mccain-iii-elementary-school-opens-to-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walton.com\/jp\/john-s-mccain-iii-elementary-school-opens-to-students\/","title":{"rendered":"John S. McCain III Elementary School Opens to Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Corporate Release<\/strong> \u2013 Walton is pleased to announce the opening of John S. McCain III Elementary School located in one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, Buckeye, Arizona on August 4, 2021.\u00a0 The school located near 247th Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road, was built on donated land provided by Walton called Monte Verde and dedicated to the late Senator of Arizona, John McCain.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cWalton is honored to be a part of this important project,\u201d said Kate Kaminski, Chief Operating Officer of Walton. \u201cWe have a true appreciation for the value of education and providing young children with the necessary resources to support their future, and a great respect for this dedication to the late Senator John McCain.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>On July 27, 2021, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held that Walton participated in\u00a0with special guest and speaker, Cindy McCain. A tour was conducted by Assistant\u00a0Superintendent\u00a0Davis\u00a0who showcased the state-of-the-art school and\u00a0featured\u00a0the different\u00a0learning\u00a0concept. The school\u00a0includes\u00a020 classrooms with\u00a0collaborative, open\u00a0spaces with movable walls\u00a0and a\u00a0focus on a C-Stem program (Coding, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) for students in\u00a0kindergarten through 8th grade. Other school highlights include robotics, a\u00a0Z-Space virtual learning lab, a commercial grade kitchen and much\u00a0more.\u00a0According to the District, the facility is designed to help students use critical thinking, social skills and to learn humanities and history.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cWorking with Assistant Superintendent Davis and the exceptional Chasse project team has been a great experience, and it is thrilling to see this school take shape,\u201d said Jen Ruby, Senior Vice President, Land for Arizona and Colorado. \u201cThe City of Buckeye is a wonderful community and Walton is proud to support this phenomenal new school in the Senator\u2019s honor.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>John McCain III Elementary School was designed by\u00a0Orcutt Winslow, and construction was completed by the Chasse Building team.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walton is pleased to announce the opening of John S. McCain III Elementary School located in one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, Buckeye, Arizona on August 4, 2021.\u00a0 The school located near 247th\u00a0Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road, was built on donated land provided by Walton called Monte Verde and dedicated to the late Senator of Arizona, John McCain.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"1080","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-release","category-newsroom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walton.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walton.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walton.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walton.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walton.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walton.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walton.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walton.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walton.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walton.com\/jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}