School Board vote expected on whether to close Cherryville school

CHERRYVILLE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Gaston County School Board members are set to vote Monday night on a controversial consolidation plan.

Parents and teachers are pushing back against a proposal to close W.B. Beam Intermediate and send about 200 students to other schools in the district.

Gaston County school board members plan to make the choice Monday about where the fourth and fifth-graders of W.B. Beam Intermediate will attend class next year…

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