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Eight Vallejo colleges face potential closure

By Miles Cooper
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January 22, 2025
Eight Vallejo colleges face potential closure
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Eight Vallejo colleges face potential closure

VALLEJO, Calif. (KRON) – Extra Bay Space colleges are going through potential closures. On Tuesday, the Vallejo Metropolis Unified College District held a city corridor to debate the destiny of eight of its colleges. 

Vallejo mother and father from a number of colleges spoke out in opposition to the closures, saying it will disrupt their youngsters’s training and each day lives.

Sharon Johnson says she particularly transferred her daughter to Mare Island Well being and Health Academy as a result of the varsity closest to their dwelling wasn’t secure.

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“It is close to homeless encampments. There are drug sellers, prostitution all going round our dwelling faculty,” she mentioned. 

Presently there are 19 colleges in Vallejo serving solely about 9,000 college students. The faculties that might be affected are:

Federal Terrace Elementary

Lincoln Elementary

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Loma Vista Environmental Science Academy

Pennycook Elementary

Solano Widenmann Management Academy

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Steffan Manor Elementary

Vallejo Constitution College

Superintendent Ruben Aurelio says one of many causes for closures is a decline in enrollment.

“Vallejo itself has seen a big decline of about 5,000 college students previously 10 years,” he mentioned. “We always tell our parents attendance really matters because that’s how we get funded – not by a moment but by actual daily attendance. Families have moved out, and we are feeling that pain point.”

Final fall, a committee was fashioned tasked with making a plan to make funds reductions. Up to now, they’ve discovered methods to chop greater than $4 million, however Aurelio says the district nonetheless must make $8 million value of cuts. 

“We’re projected to be deficit spending within the subsequent three years, so it is a actually necessary step for us,” he mentioned. 

However one other Mare Island dad or mum says households shouldn’t be those having to make a sacrifice.  

“It is extremely onerous to dwell and lift a toddler on this metropolis. We’re all working mother and father. We’re grateful for the island in making me really feel secure that my child is there whereas I am working,” Eva Poom mentioned. 

The superintendent says suggestions from this city corridor might be a part of the district’s consideration as they work to decide by the board of training assembly on Feb. 5.

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