Editorial Notebook: Why school closures in city are so painful
Parents, students and staff at A.M. Winn Elementary school could not have been more surprised or more pleased when Sacramento City Unified School District trustees and Superintendent Jonathan Raymond shelved plans this week to close and consolidate district schools.
Winn boosters made up a big part of the overflow crowd that showed up two nights ago to plead with board members to spare their school. The 50-year-old campus sits in a working-class neighborhood at the eastern edge of the district. Designed for more than 500 students, enrollment has dwindled to just 371. Closing Winn, officials calculated, would save the district $181,063 yearly.
Those calculations hadn't impressed Winn's tight-knit community. I got so many calls from teachers and parents there I decided to check it out for myself.
Just hours before trustees did their stunning about-face, I stood Thursday in the morning chill
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