News Talk 94.1/AM 1600 Where The Upper Cumberland Talks
The White County Board of Education has voted 4-2 to close Central View Elementary School.
Director of Schools Kurt Dronebarger has wanted to close the school as a way to save money and to fund school safety projects and SROs at each school.
Closing Central View would save the school system some $1.2 million and Dronebarger estimates a cost of a few hundred thousand dollars to fund SROs in each school.
Under Dronebarger’s proposal, the 72 students at Central View would be rezoned to three other schools no more than 7 miles away. No layoffs would occur as each teacher would be absorbed into vacancies that come up within the school system.
The board has discussed closing Central View for sometime, but discussions picked up several months ago when State lawmakers invited several school officials from across the region to a school safety discussion at Tennessee Tech.
