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One More Year For Carver/Century; Then Closure Recommended
June 18, 2008
School Superintendent Jim Paul will recommend the closure of Carver/Century K-8 School at a budget workshop on June 26.
The school will remain open for the the upcoming 2008-2009 school year, but will close before the 2009-2010 school year if Paul’s recommendation is approved by the five member school board. The schools 200 plus students would be transferred mostly to Bratt Elementary and Ernest Ward Middle School.
“Superintendent Jim Paul announced today that he will recommend the closure of Carver/Century K-8 in 2009-2010 at the June 26 special budget meeting of the School Board of Escambia County,” Ronnie Arnold, associate superintendent and district spokesperson said in an email news release Tuesday morning, several hours after NorthEscambia.com was first to report the school’s fate.
Closing the school for this school year was not logistically feasible, Arnold told NorthEscambia.com. “He (Paul) did not feel it could be closed in the right way in that time frame.”
“The superintendent cited a lack of adequate time to prepare for an effective closure for 2008-2009 as the overriding factor in his decision,” the news release said.
The 57 employees at the school will be offered jobs elsewhere in the system.
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