PORT ANGELES — School closure recommendations that are before the Port Angeles School Board will be discussed at a community forum on Wednesday.
To hear comments and ideas, the public meeting with school superintendent Gary Cohn, School Board members and district staff members will be held in the Roosevelt Middle School Library, 106 Monroe Road, beginning at 6 p.m.
Six school closure options made by the district’s Facilities Efficiency Task Force are aimed at saving the district $960,000 between 2007 and 2009.
The savings are needed to offset an expected decline in enrollment of 370 student over the next four years.
A minimum of $500,000 in savings is needed for the 2007-08 school year, which all of the options on the table meet.
Option D, the task force’s No. 1 recommendation, would:
* Realign elementary grades to a kindergarten through sixth-grade structure — instead of kindergarten through fifth grade.
* Move all the pupils at Fairview Elementary School and some of those at Franklin Elementary School to Roosevelt Middle School, which would then become an elementary school.
* All seventh and eighth grade students would be combined at Stevens Middle School.
