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Students, parents and staff urge board to halt planned closure of Academy at McAteer
Summary
Students, parents, teachers and community groups urged the San Francisco Board of Education to stop a planned closure and merger that would move Academy at McAteer students into a much larger school, saying the small-school environment supports vulnerable students and raising equity and special-education concerns.
Students and community members told the San Francisco Board of Education they felt blindsided and dismissed after learning the district plans to close the Academy at McAteer next year and merge students into Wallenberg High School.
"The academy is not a school, it's a family," said Dolly, a junior at Academy High School, who told the board the district's case for closing the site is based on outdated data. Jaden, the academy student body president, said his grades and mental health improved after returning to Academy because teachers there ‘‘see their students in a way I've never…
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