2009.02.06
Pulaski County boundary adjustments
Here's a look a the boundary changes that Pulaski's school board is considering. The changes would close Newbern Elementary.
A public hearing is scheduled for March 5.
About this blog
Welcome to Chalk Dust! This is your community aimed at exploring education in the New River Valley. I'm Anna Mallory. I went to public schools in West Virginia and now I cover PreK-12 education for the Roanoke Times.
I read way too many reports about improving schools and can speak in entire sentences using educational acronyms. I'll be letting you know about issues and events affecting your children, schools and tax dollars, but, more importantly, I want to know what you think. Let me know your opinions about issues in the boardroom, classroom and beyond.
I ride through Newbern to take photographs for at one time it was something else to see and a great place to live. So I am wondering what is next for their community when everything has gone away as it is there now? It should not take much to run the school considering how small it is and the children that go to that school love it there and the teachers make all feel like family! Why close something else and eventually leave a ghost of a place that does not deserve such! I agree that times are hard but when taking away things and places they become harder and in this case more on the students, parents and teachers!
Comment by Bev Bishop — February 7, 2009 @ 8:54 am