St. Louis Public Radio News
(2008-01-25)
ST. LOUIS, MO
(St. Louis Public Radio) -
The St. Louis Public School District is preparing for another round of school closings and grade reconfigurations for the 2008/2009 school year. The closings are the second round of re-alignments. The district shuttered five facilities last year and floated a buyout offer which 135 teachers accepted.
Deanna Anderson is the Assistant Superintendent of Operations for the district.
"Really what we're looking at is grade configuration, expenditure of funds, so what facilities do we have out there that make sense to keep open and then the third one; again it goes back to consolidation."
As part of the preliminary plan, the district has a tentative list of eight elementary school consolidations including:
Mitchell (students move to Hamilton)
Gundlach (students move to Ford, Lexington and Laclede)
Wilkinson ECC (move program to Roe)
Shenandoah (students move to Wyman)
Simmons (students move to Hickey, Cote Brilliante and Farragut)
Lyons (students move to Blow)
Mark Twain (students move to Walbridge)
Meramec (students move to Monroe and Froebel)
The proposal includes reopening Carver School as a pre-kindergarten to fifth-grade school.
A series of public comment forums are being planned for late February.
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