SAN ANTONIO – Edgewood Independent School District is the most recent San Antonio house public district to suggest closing schools amid low enrollment and lack of funding.
The district’s finance and amenities committee on Tuesday proposed closing Winston Intermediate School of Excellence (WISE) and Wrenn Middle School subsequent college 12 months as phase of EISD’s Rethink & Redesign procedure introduced previous this 12 months.
The procedure was once introduced as an effort to reconsider how the district supplies a top quality training to scholars and redesign the district in order that it maximizes sources to make sure scholar, mum or dad, instructor and neighborhood luck sooner or later.
Valerie Lozano’s youngest son attends WISE. Lozano, like many different Edgewood oldsters, is attempting determine the place her kid will pass to college subsequent 12 months. She mentioned her son will most likely pass to a constitution college after which again to Edgewood ISD for center college.
“It makes me angry and frustrated that they’re doing this to our kids. I get that it’s money, but at the end of the day, you’re hurting kids,” Lozano mentioned.
Lozano mentioned her son would have to sign up for his fourth college in nearly as a few years if the proposal passes.
“It’s kind of disappointing because my youngest son, which will be in fifth grade next year, has already been affected by the changes,” Lozano mentioned.
Dwindling enrollment and attendance has hit the district exhausting during the last decade. Many districts also are dealing with a loss of hundreds of thousands of greenbacks in funding they won right through the pandemic.
Edgewood ISD had 11,935 scholars right through the 2012-2013 college 12 months, consistent with the Texas Education Agency. That quantity is round 8,200 scholars this 12 months. It follows the identical trend from different inside town college districts. San Antonio ISD, Harlandale and South San ISDs have all voted to near campuses.
If WISE have been to near, there could be no Edgewood ISD basic schools positioned south of Highway 90. That signifies that oldsters, scholars and academics would most likely pass to Perales Elementary north of the freeway.
“Its going to be very dangerous, especially if they don’t have transportation for these kids,” Lozano mentioned.
Edgewood ISD superintendent Dr. Eduardo Hernandez mentioned many fogeys have opted to pressure or stroll their youngsters to college after COVID, however he assures there might be choices for college students who want transportation.
“If a student needs transportation, we’re going to get them there. We won’t be allowing students to cross any busy streets or any what are called hazardous roads,” Hernandez mentioned. “We have been providing service across the district because we have an innovation platform where if you want to attend a school that is not in your neighborhood, we will get you there.”
The board will make a last choice on Nov. 14. Hernandez mentioned any choice made might be accomplished in the most productive passion of the district, its scholars and the longer term.
(*2*) Hernandez mentioned. “We do listen, but understand that part of that process is learning to listen to one another and really work through this because we’ll be stronger as a group. My primary concern continues to be the kids. They’re the ones who have to go through this change as well as our staff.”
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