A two-year attempt to reimagine the Red Clay School District hit the brakes Wednesday, as their school board voted to delay any restructuring of McKean High School the 2027-28 school year.
Red Clay had been going forward with a plan to turn McKean, one of the district’s three traditional public high schools, into an innovation center, taking advantage of career-based programs at the school to create a modified vo-tech school within the district.
The push to redistribute the student population after A.I. duPont’s student enrollment dropped to 543 students this year, continuing a freefall that started in 2009-10, when they had 1,480 students and their marching band participated in the Fiesta Bowl…