Sarasota will expand Wilkinson Elementary, one of its half-empty elementary schools, instead of closing it down, said school district superintendent Terry Connor on Monday.
“I felt it was really important to tell you face to face that Wilkinson is going to be fine,” Connor told dozens of parents who gathered at the elementary school for a 4:30 p.m. meeting.
Rather than repurposing it into a magnet or closing it, “Wilkinson will remain a neighborhood school,” he said. To grow its enrollment, the district will expand it to a K-8 in the next three years…