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CHARLOTTE – The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education has to determine a new list of priorities when it comes to its facilities.

Many of its schools are overcrowded and old.

At Winget Elementary, the fourth and fifth graders are taught in mobile classrooms. The school, built in 2007, already has 150 more students than the building was designed to hold.

"It's hard to feed 950 students in less than three hours," Principal Paul Williams said. "But we make it happen."

School leaders say although mobile classrooms aren't an ideal situation, so far they're working.

"As far as their learning environment, I do believe it would be the same as being in the building," parent and PTA President Kelli Crane said. "If I had my rathers, I'd rather [my daughter] be in the building."

Schools across the district are experiencing the same predicament. In 2007, voters approved bonds that were supposed to address building renovation and construction of new schools. Thirty of the 39 project designated as priorities still have not been completed due to the Mecklenburg County's financial constraints.

Now the board has to consider a new list of priorities that could change the projects voters were initially promised.

"I think the hard work is what is in front of us," Eric Davis, chairman of the board of education, said. "That frankly is solving these problems in a low to no capital environment."