At a May meeting of the Columbus Board of Education, a third grader made a plea.
“I love my school and I don’t want to see it closed,” he said. “For some of my classmates, school is their only safe space. Sometimes [it’s] the only place they can get a bite to eat.”
The board is considering closing buildings and merging schools. And it’s not the only one: public schools across Ohio and the nation are grappling with years of enrollment declines.
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