More reports on the School Closure Meeting

Kim Knox once again provides an excellent report, including a record of each vote, in her column on LeftInSf: School Closures-The Real Story

In the Examiner, Bonnie Elsinger reports: Board of Ed votes to close three schools

Although the San Francisco school board voted to spare some schools from closure, several schools were merged and three were closed late Thursday to help balance a budget that continues to lose revenue due to declining enrollment.

Beyond Chron's Schoot Beat column reports on the meeting and offers an excellent look ahead: Closing Schools Again

It’s time to examine what went wrong over the last many years in our planning and decision making processes at both the level of the school board and the administration. This is not a moment to point fingers, but to look at what happened, what didn’t happen and what we need to do to move forward constructively. It’s time to tap into our pool of principals and teachers and have some honest and creative dialogue with the people who know our schools the best about how to combine programs and share space. It’s time for us to find more effective ways to work with City to get the many kinds of support our schools need and deserve.

Finally, Teaching in the 408 makes the connnection between closing schools and opening ever-more charters: Charters and School Closures

This is one of the logical results of combining 1) under-enrolled urban school districts and 2) a lemming-like rush to institute school 'choice' by opening as many charter schools as fast as you possibly can.