What goes around, comes around. When I had the opportunity to serve as the assistant executive director of CEFPI in the late 1970's-80's, school closure was a hot topic. We worked on hundreds of school closures. Even though closing schools was very ...
One of the best - if not the best - urban planners and holistic thinkers is Steven Bingler. We recently had a conversation about this very topic and how school districts and other public entities should be working together and not against each other ...
Having been the planner who had to find school sites when enrollment returned, I was very grateful for the approach the district had taken years earlier when they had surplus sites. They decided to move their administration into a site, their maintenance ...
Thanks, Robert. One of the consolidation hurdles I suspect we are going to face if we go a developer route with housing is the question: "If you add housing, where will the students go to school if the neighborhood school is demolished?" It is a challenge ...
Thank you, Robin. Yes, loss and feelings of "it was fine when I went there" are already being expressed. We too have a first right of refusal element to work through. It is a tough battle when the district is losing students to choice (charter or private) ...
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