Miller's Crossing; City Proposals to Combine Hill Schools has Even More Parents Alarmed

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Miller PTO President Justin Laing, who has studied the May 10 proposal, says in reality Miller has just been given a reprieve from closing. Since [Weil] was not among the 16 schools originally proposed for closing by the board, it would require the same 60- to 90-day public-comment period under law, and even then there's no guarantee Weil would close -- especially if Weil produced the kind of community response that saw hundreds of parents, scholars and activists overpowering public hearings and staging rallies in support of Miller. Thus, Miller's building might close without Miller's program having anywhere to go.

Says Juan Glover, who has a daughter at Weil: "We don't want Weil or Miller to close and we're going to sit down with Vann and Madison's parents also to work out a logical solution."

Concludes the Miller PTO's Laing: "We're just asking the board to be honest about how they're handling this situation and the honest thing to do is to pull Miller off of the list entirely and just say, 'we made a mistake.'"

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Miller's Crossing; City Proposals to Combine Hill Schools has Even More Parents Alarmed

"The administration is pitting school against school," says city school-board member Patrick Dowd.

Teachers and parents of students at Miller African-Centered Academy in the Hill District were initially relieved when, on Ma...

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