Monday, July 20, 2009
BOARDMAN — Boardman school district has scrapped an idea to realign its two middle schools and instead will pursue plans to implement more core class time and more tutoring time into its current setup.
After debating a preliminary proposal to realign the schools at a special meeting tonight, the district decided the potential hurdles were too great and that the district should explore other options to add more face time between students and teachers, Superintendent Frank Lazzeri said.
The board was considering changing the district’s two middle schools from each teaching fifth through eighth grades to each building housing two grades, but it faced problems ranging from potential costs to the district to its inability to accommodate two sports teams in a single building.
Under the proposal, fifth- and sixth-graders would have attended Boardman Center and seventh- and eighth-graders would have attended Glenwood Middle.
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