Once again the Board of Education will get together with members of the School Closure Advisory Committee to discuss school closure options. The meeting will be located at Glenbrook Middle School inside the gymnasium. The address of Glenbrook is 2351 Olivera Rd, Concord. The meeting time is 7:00 PM.

Due to limited connectivity the meeting will not be covered online or on KVHS.

The Board will use this opportunity to meet with the School Closure Advisory Committee to discuss an alternative option that includes the following:

• Close Westwood Elementary and shift most of the students to Mountain View Elementary.
• Re-designate the school currently known as Westwood as the school that would receive all 6th grade students from Glenbrook Middle School and El Dorado Middle School.
• El Dorado Middle School would be the receiving school for most 7th and 8th grade students from Glenbrook Middle School as well as the El Dorado Middle School 7th and 8th grade students.

The Board hopes to discuss the option with Committee Members to get their thoughts on the alternative. With the length of time that the Committee spent discussing school closures, they are uniquely positioned to possibly provide the Board with valuable insights.

Once we have completed our discussions with the School Closure Advisory Committee, the Board will hear testimony from interested members of the community. At a typical meeting the public is provided 3 minutes each to speak. Given the number of people that have been signing up to speak about school closures, speakers should be prepared to provide their thoughts in 1 minute. We have to limit the length of speeches so that we can ensure that we hear from all speakers and still have time to discuss as a Board.

On top of your ability to provide testimony at the meeting, I would encourage interested community members to e-mail Board Members to share your thoughts.

The Board will not make any decisions at the February 15, 2011 meeting. The final decisions are scheduled to made at the Board meeting on February 22, 2011.

If you would like to read the agenda for the meeting on February 15, 2011, please CLICK HERE.