It’s not easy to close a school, especially schools that have been community pillars for generations.
Broward County Public Schools has been going through that process for more than a year, and now Miami-Dade County Public Schools is doing the same thing for the same reason: declining enrollment.
The school board will vote next month on a proposal to close and/or repurpose nine schools:
- Parkway Elementary
- Rainbow Park Elementary
- Lenora B. Smith Elementary
- Miami Springs Middle
- Phillis Wheatley Elementary
- Pine Villa Elementary
- Richmond Heights Middle
- Mandarin Lakes K-8
- Robert Moton Elementary
Tiffany and Orlando Lawrence have a daughter in second grade at Parkway, and they’re worried about what next year might hold for her…