Wednesday night, parents pressed Liggins on a number of questions — from worries over how RISE can grow with applications being capped to complaints over the use of eminent domain at the new facility site.
But many concerns revolved around a new plan that would combine the all-girls school with the all-boys George Washington Carver STEM Academy.
Parents asked why the new proposal seems to be coming so late in the process.
“Why is it, when we could have designed this building to accommodate male and female learners… it wasn’t done?” one speaker said. “We’re talking about a change order in December before the new school building is supposed to open. How is this not malfeasance on the part of our school board?”…