Allen ISD's school board voted Monday to approve boundary changes that would close two elementary schools.
boundary changes that would close two elementary schools on the city's east side.
Up against a state mandate to provide daylong kindergarten, budget troubles, overcrowding on the fast-growing west side and slowing enrollment on the east side, the district voted 6-1 to move east side children out of Anderson and Roundtree elementary schools and re-purpose the buildings.n, which would force students on the city's east side to travel further away from home to get to school.
"Neighborhood schools are the center of Texas education," Holly Barnard, a clinical child psychologist and Anderson parent, told NBC 5 immediately after the board's Monday night vote."That's what it should be. That's the way it's always been. They just don't want to touch certain neighborhoods on the west side. They don't want to touch them."
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