Community Corner
Results: Patch Readers Would Close Grant Elementary
We put our readers to the test. To help close a $12.4 million shortfall over the next five years, the Lakewood City Schools will shutter Grant, Lincoln or Roosevelt elementary schools.
To help over the next five years, the will shutter , or elementary schools by the start of the 2013-14 school year.
On Monday, Superintendent Jeff Patterson said that's part of his proposal to help balance the district's budget, following massive cuts in state funding last year.
So, on Tuesday, — in a completely unscientific poll — which school they’d close.
Find out what's happening in Lakewoodfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
If it were up to them, Grant Elementary School would close. Lakewood Patch readers overwhelmingly voted to shutter Grant (57 percent), over the other two schools — Lincoln was next with 16 percent of the vote.
The school board previously voted — as part of the — to shutter Grant, but Patterson said he’d like see which school “makes the most sense” to close.
Find out what's happening in Lakewoodfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
However the final decision won’t be made until August.
Board president Betsy Shaughnessy said on Monday that she doesn’t want to “back to revisit that whole discussion” on the subject.
But Patterson said there are still "a lot factors to consider."
Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.