By Antonio D. French
Filed Tuesday, June 6 at 10:14 PM
Superintendent Creg Williams recommended to the school board at tonight's administrative meeting that students from Cleveland NJROTC High School be moved to Pruitt Military Academy Middle School. The board will vote on the recommendation at next week's regular board meeting.
Board member Bill Purdy motioned to have a resolution added to next week's agenda that would affirm the district's committment to work with the Cleveland alumni and members of the surrounding community in any efforts to raise private funds to help repair the 93 year-old school.
Purdy said he also wanted to see those parts of the building that are still usable, such as the gymnasium and football fields, be made available to relocated Cleveland students and the community.
Pruitt, which would become a 7-12th grade school, is a smaller building than Cleveland and has no field or gym for the existing Cleveland football and basketball teams to practice.
With Pruitt's limited capacity in mind, board member Peter Downs made a motion to ask the superintendent to considering re-openning one of the 16 schools closed by Alverez and Marsal Inc. when they managed the district in 2003.
That motion failed to get the needed majority with board president Veronica O'Brien acting as the tying vote. Joining her in voting against were Ron Jackson and Robert Archibald. Voting for were Downs, Purdy and Donna Jones.
Board member Flint Fowler left the meeting early and was not present at the time of the vote.
2 Comments:
It is confusing that some who have openly decried the closing of schools in the past, have not come out in support of saving this great institution, and further have no interest in re-opening schools closed under the previous administration.
Wednesday, June 07, 2006 1:19:00 AM
Opening a previously closed school seems like a good idea but I can't imagine that any of those closed schools are in any kind of shape right now having been left alone for a few years.
Wednesday, June 07, 2006 10:43:00 AM
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