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Parents, residents press board to delay school closures as long-range plan is reworked
Summary
Public commenters urged the St. Joseph School District Board to delay closing Benton High and other buildings until replacement capacity is built, while the board and administration said they will run a community survey and ask architects for feasibility analysis as part of a revised long-range plan.
Public commenters at the St. Joseph School District Board of Education meeting urged trustees not to close Benton High School until replacement space is ready and criticized the district for what they described as poor communication about the failed bond proposition.
“I am here today to ask you to consider how we get to a 2 high school city,” Claribel Turner, a fourth‑generation Benton parent, told the board during audience participation. “We are asking that no buildings are closed until a new one is built.”
Turner and other residents told the board that uncertainty about building closures has already hurt morale, driven families away and…
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