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4 Meetings on School Closings

By Antonio D. French

Filed Wednesday, February 06, 2008 at 9:44 AM

St. Louis Public Schools has scheduled four community forums next week to hear public comments regarding the preliminary recommendations for school reconfigurations and consolidations. Here are the dates and times:

Monday, February 11 at 6 p.m.
Lexington Elementary, 5030 Lexington Ave.

Tuesday, February 12 at 6 p.m.
Wyman Elementary, 1547 S. Theresa Ave.

Wednesday, February 13 at 6 p.m.
Walbridge Elementary, 5000 Davison Ave.

Thursday, February 14 at 6 p.m.
Blow Middle, 516 Loughborough Ave.

As part of the preliminary plan, the district is considering the closing of several schools. They are:

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 also includes reopening Carver School as a pre-kindergarten to fifth-grade school.

Public comments may also be submitted online at www.slps.org, by calling (314) 331-6100, or by writing to: Operations Division, St. Louis Public Schools, 801 N. 11th St., St. Louis, MO 63101.

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3 Comments:

Bill Monroe said...

Is smaller class sizes a part of the consideration ?

2/06/2008 2:07 PM

Bushido Hacks said...

Blow Middle School?

Thank God that place isn't a high school. Imagine the senior pranks.

2/06/2008 6:35 PM

kjoe said...

Bill, there was a column today about a school with a 10-1 ratio--a positive article by Sylvester Brown--who seems to be a token rational voice on education at the PD.

Peter Downs had a letter about KIPPS. I regard KIPPS as an organization which does all the things for a small percentage of students which are not possible to do for the other 90 percent--making it a showcase for how charter schools are the answer---kind of a bait and switch thing. But Downs went further---criticizing them for a high dropout, (from the program) rate for black males.

I have had two replies from reporters on my urging them to take a look at the state board's charter school at 4300 goodfellow (the Texas or MissouriCan company operates on different principles than KIPP--some of their science and math classes have more than 50 students in the Texas schools I googled)and who knows---they might actually drive out there some day and see what the geniuses at the state department are doing.

2/07/2008 11:51 AM

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