Trustees voted to consolidate the district due to enrollment, which dropped from over 15,000 in 2013 to just over 12,000 this school year.
Vestal Elementary School teachers Maricruz Martinez and Dolores Villarreal appear relieved after the Harlandale ISD board voted for an option that spared their school from closure Monday.The Harlandale Independent School district board of trustees voted
The board first voted on Option A, which had Vestal Elementary slated for closure instead of Carroll Bell, but it failed with four “no” votes and three “yes” votes.Anaya-Ortiz proposed to partner with a university to continue operating Carroll Bell, but her bid to save the school failed when the motion was not seconded.
Morrill Elementary School Kindergarten teacher Gloria Imming raises her fist as community members make public comments during a Harlandale ISD meeting Monday.The opposite was the case for Peggy Costello, a Vestal parent, after the school was spared closure. She breathed a sigh of relief along with her son, AJ, an eighth-grader who attended Vestal just a few years ago.Peggy Costello said the situation is sad for the students at the other schools.
“We are the ones that are going to make them who they are going to be,” he said. “Not the campus. Not the building.” “I think the district has worked very diligently to bring forward the information that’s relevant to this current situation,” she said. The funding troubles that necessitated the move come in part from declining enrollment in the district, which has dropped from over 15,000 in 2013 to just over 12,000 in 2023.
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