City Forward Collective Executive Director Colleston Morgan Jr. reflects on Elm Creative Arts School, his elementary school, now half-empty and ranked among the state’s lowest-performing schools. He argues that MPS needs to close or consolidate about 30 schools, not five. Enrollment is down roughly 30% from its peak, yet MPS still runs 138 schools, and 36 of them are less than half full. Colleston argues that student outcomes should help decide which schools close and that for every child affected, what comes next has to be better.
The case for fewer, better, and stronger MPS schools
City Forward Collective Executive Director Colleston Morgan Jr. reflects on Elm Creative Arts School, his elementary school, now half-empty and ranked among the state's lowest-performing schools. He argues that MPS needs to close or consolidate about 30 schools, not five. Enrollment is down roughly 30% from its peak, yet MPS still runs 138 schools, and 36 of them are less than half full. Colleston argues that student outcomes should help decide which schools close and that for every child affected, what comes next has to be better.
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