SAN ANTONIO – Tx \u2014 Three Northeast ISD schools are on the chopping block as the school district battles a $20 million budget shortfall.<\/p>\n
The schools are all elementary schools that would be consolidated into other schools in an effort to cut overhead costs.<\/p>\n
NEISD leaders say student enrollment has shrunk by more than 17 thousand students, forcing the district to make some tough decisions to balance their budget.<\/p>\n
At tonight\u2019s board meeting the school district discussed their plans to save money.<\/p>\n
The district is considering consolidating Oak Grove Elementary into Regency Elementary, Montgomery Elementary into Windcrest Elementary, and Dellview Elementary into Colonial Hills Elementary.<\/p>\n
The consolidations would save Northeast ISD over $4 million. Parents, teachers, and students pleaded with the school district to find other options.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe definitely have hit a tough time where our enrollment is down,\u201d Claudine said. \u201cBut we do have support. I would hate for our school to close. Change is always hard. It would be very hard for our students to relocate. We love what we do, and I was hoping to retire from Dellview.\u201d<\/p>\n
The school district does not plan to cut staff. Instead, they want to relocate affected staff members with students to their new schools.<\/p>\n
No decisions were made tonight. A final recommendation and vote could come by the next board meeting next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – Tx \u2014 Three Northeast ISD schools are on the chopping block as the school district…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-471275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}