Yorktown Superintendent Ralph Napolitano will lay out merger plans for the district’s elementary school buildings with the intention of closing one of them.
It’s unclear as yet which of the four buildings would be closed. Napolitano will unveil the proposal at Monday’s Board of Education meeting at Yorktown High School off Route 202. The meeting starts at 7 p.m.
District staff will be briefed on the plan prior to the meeting and will get a full presentation Tuesday. If adopted by the school board, it would be implemented this fall.
Napolitano was charged by trustees with studying consolidation as a means to cut costs entering the upcoming budget season. Declining enrollment may make closing a building a viable option. The district might then seek to lease the space.
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the school that is going to close is Mohanshic
this has been in the plan for years, have you ever notices
there were NO improvemnts to this school other then a sign
this is a shame, but yet there is still a full blown sports program
The state should look into this
Is it time to look deeply into the actions of the school board and Superintendent? In three years of this Board and administrative leadership we have had a crisis every year (the firing of John Sullivan, the dismantling of a Business Department and now an entire school closing). It is time we evaluate how the Board has continued to extend the Superintendents contract while he has rubber stamped the creation of programs to benefit Board members children. School Board members are self serving. We need people with great vision and a stake in Yorktown’s future, not just the present. I hope that those leaders emerge!