School closings critical in board race

John Nichols:

So how did Cole secure her 3,000-vote majority?

The answer would appear to have a lot to do with threats by school administrators to consolidate and perhaps close schools on the isthmus. A few months before the election, the administration floated the notion that budgets could be balanced by radically altering how Lapham and Marquette elementary schools and O'Keeffe Middle School are organized.

Posted by barb s at April 10, 2007 6:46 PM
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