The school board heard over three hours of testimony about the proposed school closure list.
Parents pack the Anchorage School Board meeting to protest the proposed closure of seven elementary schools over the next three years district’s proposalDalton Ante graduated sixth grade from Bear Valley last year. He told the school board he was confused why his former school was on the list of proposed closures for next year.
Bonnie Gurney is a real estate appraiser and parent of a Bear Valley student who also testified at the meeting. Gurney said the district’s assessment that Bear Valley lacked growth potential was inaccurate. “Any real estate professional will assure you that the only place there is massive population growth that can happen is southside anchorage so closing an elementary school is incompetent at best,” Gurney said. “We understand the predicament that you guys are in. You have schools that are half empty, that’s a hard truth. If you had a rubric that made sense, if you had transparency and if you had things that were consistently applied, we could deal with the big feeling of sadness.
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