[CPEO-BIF] "School board votes to close Lowrance, Hanes middle schools by March 2" in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

School board votes to close Lowrance, Hanes middle schools by March 2

by Arika Herron and Bertrand M. Gutierrez
Winston-Salem Journal (NC)
February 10, 2015 

The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education votes 7-2 to close Hanes and Lowrance middle schools by March 2. Voting in favor were school board members: Mark Johnson, Vic Johnson, Robert Barr and Deanna Taylor joined by Vice Chair Jeannie Metcalf and Chair Dana Caudill Jones. Voting against were school board members David Singletary and Elisabeth Motsinger.

The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education on Tuesday decided to move the students at Hanes and Lowrance middle schools by March 2.

The vote, 7-2, marked a watershed moment after the board members contended for weeks with a legacy of toxic waste, poor oversight and what many view as a dearth of information concerning the contaminants under the campus.

Board members Mark Johnson, Vic Johnson, Jeannie Metcalf, Dana Jones, Lori Clark, Robert Barr and Deanna Taylor voted in favor of the move. David Singletary and Elisabeth Motsinger opposed it.

Now, school officials must turn their attention to the logistics of moving nearly 1,200 students in the middle of the school year and splitting one school’s student body between two campuses.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/school-board-votes-to-close-lowrance-hanes-middle-schools-by/article_670d33a8-b195-11e4-9ac8-a774939f43d3.html

See also http://www.wxii12.com/news/haneslowrance-students-to-be-moved/31203324
and 
http://myfox8.com/2015/02/10/hanes-lowrance-closing-move-out-day-is-march-2/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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