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Originally Posted by markbarbera
The high school closures are a seperate issue, but on that point the board had 11,000 vacant spaces across the system and needed to shut schools down in order to remain viable. The closures were across the board. Of the three new high schools to be built, one will be in the central city so while the north section of the city has one-third of the school closures, one-third of the new schools being built will be there as well.
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'and needed to shut down schools in order to remain viable.'
You have a school that fits 1700 and 1100 students. What's not viable about that?
And how do you get from excess capacity to three new schools? Is there some sort of requirement that the school board have exactly the capacity as there are students? Because every time the board builds a school it is almost immediately at capacity and they're building portables. In fact I bet if they tore down all the portables they've built they wouldn't be over capacity.
But I can see no way to get from 3000 student capacity in three schools (one of which is special needs) to a mandate to build one new school at 1500 capacity. Taking Parkview out of the formula, for good reason, you're left with two schools 7 km apart, each with 1500 capacity. So they're half full. What's the issue? That's the same excess capacity as any other office space in this city.
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