![]() ![]() ![]() Parent Maria Morones, whose son attends Lyons Elementary, also on the closure list, said she may have to relocate to get her special-needs child appropriate schooling. It's Christmas, and we should all be at home thinking about our families and preparing, and we're seeing if our kids will have a place to go to school next year, and that's not a place anyone wants to be this time of year." "I think it was very tough when they first announced the closures," said Kari Hotchkinson, parent of a girl at Brichta Elementary, which is on the closure list. Parents reacted emotionally, saying the closures would hurt their children and their neighborhoods. But these decisions are very hard to reverse and I think it's more important to do it all right than to do it all at once." "I think especially at the high school and middle school level, we probably have more work to do in the near future. "I don't think we're done," Stegeman said. ![]() Yet the specter of other closures was put forth by board member Mark Stegeman. That will leave $13 million for the district to find in savings elsewhere before adopting its 2013-14 budget. Eleven Tucson Unified District schools will be closed at the end of this academic year to help the district save money, the Governing Board decided Thursday night.Īt a lengthy and emotion-charged meeting, the board decided to close one high school, four middle schools and six elementary schools to save about $4 million. ![]()
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