Buffalo School Board Considers Closings

The Buffalo Board of Education heard "emphatic and often eloquent requests" by a student and a board member, as well as numerous parents, to keep open two of five schools proposed to be closed. Poplar Academy, Community School 53, the Dr. Charles R. Drew Science Magnet-Zoo Site, Days Park Bilingual Early Childhood Center and Montessori School 78 are still slated to have their door closed for good. Community meetings will be held, and the board will make its final decision soon.