SALT LAKE CITY — Allegations of a “conflict of interest” in Salt Lake City school closures continued at Tuesday night’s school board meeting.
Parents are demanding the board restart the study and closure selection process.
“Put a stop to this and at least restart the process,” said Qiru Cantua with the Rose Park Brown Berets. “Make this transparent. Make this fair for us.”
“What does make me angry is it feels like the district getting away with something sinister here,” said Troy Davis, a parent of Hawthorne Elementary School.
They’re upset because a chair of the district’s boundary option committee is married to a principal of a school that was considered but not chosen to close.
That district official’s stepchild attends another school that was once on the chopping block.
“Your board rules plan for this type of situation. When new information is revealed after a vote is complete, a board member of majority vote from Jan. 9 is allowed to ask for reconsideration,” said Davis.
Two of the four schools that will close are in board member Mohamed Baayd’s precinct. He said parents should accept the decision made in January and not blame an employee’s family.