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Hawaiian Gardens families, students and teachers urge city to back keeping Ferguson Elementary open
Summary
Parents, students and teachers addressed the Hawaiian Gardens City Council May 22 to ask the city to push ABC School District to withdraw or reconsider a proposal that would close Ferguson Elementary and two other neighborhood schools.
Parents, students and teachers urged the Hawaiian Gardens City Council on May 22 to press ABC School District to keep Ferguson Elementary and two other neighborhood schools — Aloha and Juarez — from a proposed round of closures.
The speakers, who addressed the council during the public-comment period, said closing neighborhood schools would harm a largely walk-to-school community and disproportionately affect low-income and Spanish-speaking families. "It's very generalized what they've proposed," parent Anthony Rico said, adding that "roughly 94–95% of students are Hispanic and about 96% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch," and that the district's materials lacked a…
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