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Press Release
For Immediate Release
December 10, 2010
Poudre School District has proposed closing five schools, alleging “underutilization”. The schools on the closure list are the five schools with the highest percentage of low income students and include the three schools with the highest percentage of Latino students in the district. All five schools are top performers. Fifteen schools in the district show lower utilization rates. Serious concerns have been raised about the process and data used to justify closure as well as the consequences of school closure.
The Coalition to Save Our Neighborhood Schools was formed in early October to unite the five schools that are facing school closure. Since then, we have become a strong voice supporting neighborhood schools and condemning the process and motivations of the District.
On December 14th we will gather before the school board meeting to field questions for the media. During the public comment portion of the School Board Meeting, we will demand that the school board take closure off of the table for any school and ask the board to instruct every school to write innovation and efficiency plans.
We believe the resources to help our school district thrive exist within our talented and committed community and that there are less onerous means of saving District money.
On December 14 there will be an outpouring of diverse community members, including parents, business owners, homeowners, university professors, and students. We believe that neighborhood schools are pivotal to a healthy community and that closing schools would cause irreversible damage to students, families and communities.
When: December 14, 2010, 6:00pm
Where: Poudre School District
Johannsen Support Services Center, 2407 LaPorte Avenue
Why: To Demand that school closure be taken off of the list
Contacts:
Kim Medina (970) 308-1184
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(Spanish)
Cheryl Distaso (970) 310-6563
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I've followed this issue in the Coloradoan and never heard that before.
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