Parents Say Possible School Closure
About More than Under Enrollment
SACRAMENTO-
Maple Elementary, a school where Latino children are the majority is one of the 11 schools slated to close.
During a meeting with the Sacramento City Unified School District, parents and students protested while the district said they are running below capacity.
“Unfortunately, we are in a fiscal crisis and we have to match the number of schools we have with the number of schools we serve,” said SCUSD spokesman Gabe Ross.
But many ask why schools like Maple?
According to sociology expert Jesus Hernandez, nine of the school closures are in south Sacramento, an area where a halfway house for parolees is being considered to go up and many families are low income.
“When you start closing these schools and build halfway houses for felons there is no way to
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