{"id":57539,"date":"2025-12-01T19:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/57539\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T19:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:44:07","slug":"bps-school-closure-committee-to-hold-first-public-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/57539\/","title":{"rendered":"BPS School Closure Committee to hold first public session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Public Schools Closure Committee will hold their first public input session on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will take place at 5 p.m. at BAVPA PS No. 192, located at 450 Masten Ave.<\/p>\n<p>The new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/news\/2025\/09\/17\/buffalo-boe-to-form-committee-to-select-two-schools-for-closure\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">committee<\/a>\u00a0will be tasked with identifying at least two schools to close at the end of this current school year.<\/p>\n<p>The committee is made up of nine members &#8211; Harper Bishop, Carolyn Jemison, Katrinna Martin, Stephon Wright, Keith Jones, Maria Rosa, Edward Speidel, Nathan Feist and Fred Yellen.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as part of the school board&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/education\/2024\/08\/22\/buffalo-public-schools-board-of-education-approves-new-4-year-plan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4-year &#8220;right-sizing&#8221; plan<\/a>.\u00a0The plan seeks to maintain fund balances as the school board said it will run out of money in the next four years without structured deficits totaling more than $200 million. That includes an $83 million deficit for the upcoming school year.<\/p>\n<p>The school district also expects to cut 180 positions for this school year and an additional 120 by the following school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Public Schools Closure Committee will hold their first public input session on Monday. The meeting will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[203,2024,12772,113,2025,67,9,11,10,49,51,50,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-57539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-education","9":"tag-app-in-the-community","10":"tag-brian-campbell","11":"tag-buffalo","12":"tag-community-news","13":"tag-education","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-news","17":"tag-new-york-state","18":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","19":"tag-new-york-state-news","20":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}