Columbus City School Board Discusses Closure List
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CCS Closures
Parents are asking for answers from the board as nine local schools face closures.
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Student reassignment and consolidation was the primary discussion at Tuesday’s school board meeting.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio—An external oversight committee officially recommended its list of nine schools that it thinks Columbus City Schools should close next year.
Four elementary schools and five middle schools are on the list.
The committee used a template created by the school board when determining which schools to recommend for closure.
After Tuesday’s meeting, the board was scheduled to meet again Tuesday, Dec. 8, to further discuss the issue before voting Tuesday, Dec. 15.
Students whose schools will close will remain at their schools throughout the school year and be reassigned next year.
Students at schools that remain open will stay in those schools to the highest grade offered.
Some students still will be reassigned.
School choice will remain an option.
The lottery application process begins in January.
The district said each school will hold informational meetings for parents with questions about reassignment.
Parents, students and teachers pleaded with the oversight committee during several community meetings in November.
It’s an emotional issue that CCS has been through before.
The historic Indianola Middle School is on the list of proposed schools to close. It’s the first junior high school in the country and on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Closing 9 schools to over crowd the ones that remain open, do you really think that is a good start? I have a 7th grader at Buckeye MS that will be affected if Beery closes. We had a plan to move before high school just so she wouldn’t have to go to Marion-Franklin, the students at Marion are the products of Buckeye and Beery and I fear that the violence at Marion will trickle down to Buckeye since now those “rivals” will be at the same school at a younger age. I cannot speak for students at Beery but I know that a lot of good Buckeye kids will be getting a lesser education because of the consolidation and that they will not be getting the opportunities that they have this year. This isn’t about trying to give the children a better education. It is about Gene Harris getting to build her special stem academies and gender specific schools to give CERTAIN children a better education.
Close ‘em up. The time to get public education squared away and right has come and gone. This looks like a good start…close ‘em up.
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