PHOENIX — The Roosevelt School District Governing Board voted late last year to close five schools as the district tries to get a handle on a $5 million budget deficit. Following the end of the school year, Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary, C.J. Jorgensen Academy, John R. Davis Elementary, V.H. Lassen Academy, and Maxine O. Bush Elementary will all close.
The district has been around for over a century, and is celebrating their histories with each school having a send off events. On Saturday, both Bush and Jorgenson held their goodbye parties.
“It means a lot to all of us,” Bush Elementary school Principal Heather Dunkley said…