Canton schools has long considered closing buildings to adjust to declining enrollment. Now, those plans appear to be a reality for the district.
“We realized in 2020, you know… six years ago now, that we were no longer as big as we used to be,” said superintendent Jeff Talbert. “We needed to make changes and we started out on a plan to do that.”
Recent state and federal cuts have sped up their timeline, according to Talbert. The district lost $4.35 million per year in state funding designated for urban schools. Lawmakers previously argued the funding, called “supplemental targeted assistance,” was meant only as a temporary fix to help urban schools after changes to Ohio’s school funding model years ago…