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Oak Ridge parent urges board to keep historic school, presents neighborhood survey
Summary
At the April 1 Granite School District board meeting, Dr. Zachary Book, an Oak Ridge parent and board-certified emergency physician, urged the board not to close Oak Ridge Elementary and presented neighborhood survey results he says show strong local opposition.
Dr. Zachary Book, a board-certified emergency physician and Oak Ridge parent, told the Granite School District Board of Education on April 1 that local families strongly oppose closing Oak Ridge Elementary School and asked the board to preserve the mid‑century school and its campus.
Book said his neighborhood survey—which he described in remarks to the board as including more than 120 responding families but which later in his remarks he characterized as a smaller local survey figure—found heavy local resistance to a closure plan. "The overwhelming…
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