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Working group recommends keeping Metcalf as school; councilors press city to fund central office study
Summary
A Metcalf working group recommended using Metcalf next year for Opportunity Academies and a planned alternative program; councilors said responsibility and funding for a separate central‑office relocation study should come from the city, not the school budget.
The School Committee received a recommendation on Feb. 24 from a Metcalf working group to keep the Metcalf facility in use as a school next year and to move Opportunity Academies there while launching a separate alternative program for ninth and tenth graders.
The memorandum and presentation to the committee summarized options the working group examined for Metcalf and recommended keeping the facility as a school to provide more space, stop paying an off‑site lease and expand program offerings. The presenter said the district currently leases space on Maple Street for Opportunity Academies and that moving to Metcalf would…
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