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Parents and alumni decry instability for Rebecca Turner alternative program as district reorganizes
Summary
Speakers at the Mount Vernon board meeting said the Rebecca Turner alternative program has been repeatedly moved and renamed and urged the board to provide a permanent home and stability; speakers also raised claims about staffing shortages and questioned impacts on students remaining in the program.
Several speakers at the May 6 meeting urged the board to preserve stability for the Rebecca Turner alternative program and criticized repeated moves and name changes as harmful to students.
"They would be stripped of their building and rightful name to be shuffled around again," former student and community member Antoinette King said, describing the program’s multiple relocations and renamings. King said students who do not graduate will face added risk…
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