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Community members press board on potential closures, urge equity and piloting K‑5/6‑8 model
Summary
Speakers at the public participation period criticized proposed school closures’ potential harm to neighborhoods, asked the board to hold meetings across affected communities, and urged the district to pilot K‑5 and 6‑8 configurations to improve outcomes and enrollment.
Several community members told the Cleveland Municipal School District Board of Education on Sept. 23 that proposed consolidations and school closures risk destabilizing neighborhoods and that the district should pilot new grade configurations. Reverend Dr. Vincent E. Stokes II told the board that schools serve as neighborhood anchors and warned that closures would disproportionately affect Black neighborhoods such as Mount Pleasant, Glenville, Hough, Lee‑Harvard, Fairfax,…
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