SAN ANTONIO – No greater than 24 hours after every other native faculty district voted to close down greater than a dozen schools, Edgewood Independent School District is the newest San Antonio-area public district to close schools amid low enrollment and lack of funding.
All with the exception of for one board member provide voted to close down the schools. One board member was once now not in attendance.
The district’s finance and amenities committee proposed last Winston Intermediate School of Excellence (WISE) and Wrenn Middle School subsequent faculty yr as phase of EISD’s Rethink & Redesign procedure introduced previous this yr.
On Tuesday evening, the committee additionally really helpful having a look into two different schools for the long run — Roy Cisneros Elementary and Leadership School for Boys and Gardendale Early Learning Program — for attainable repurposing.
The procedure was once introduced as an effort to reconsider how the district supplies a high quality training to scholars and redesign the district in order that it maximizes sources to be sure pupil, guardian, instructor and group good fortune at some point.
Edgewood ISD had 11,935 scholars throughout the 2012-2013 faculty yr, in accordance to the Texas Education Agency. That quantity is round 8,200 scholars this yr. It follows the an identical trend from different interior town faculty districts. San Antonio ISD, Harlandale and South San ISDs have all voted to close campuses.
When WISE closes, Edgewood ISD would not have an basic faculty situated south of Highway 90. That implies that folks, scholars and lecturers would most probably pass to Perales Elementary north of the freeway.
Edgewood ISD superintendent Dr. Eduardo Hernandez stated ultimate week many fogeys have opted to pressure or stroll their children to faculty after COVID, however he confident there could 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 stated ultimate week. “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.”
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