The district wants to close schools to help reduce a roughly $40 million dollar budget deficit. We dont have a fine timeline on the. · school board president diane albert explains the closures wont be immediate. · talk about possible wichita school closures has been going on behind the scenes since 2018, but most residents heard about it for the first time in january. · here, we answer some common questions about the plan to close schools and why it’s happening now. But bielefeld said schools will work with families individually to make sure they understand their options. · minutes after the wichita school board voted to close six schools last month, a handful of parents began signing petitions in the hallway outside of the meeting. · the wichita ( kansas ) school board has unanimously approved a facilities plan that calls for closings , consolidations and new “right-sized” buildings as the district responds to anticipated enrollment declines. We had said that were not gonna close any schools next school year. District officials with the wichita public schools said that four elementary schools — louverture, ok, pleasant valley and woodland — would close regardless of the results of a school bond. · it’s hard to know precise details without knowing which schools are closing. It was the first skirmish in their battle to reverse the decision.
