New London ― In a span of two days this month, school superintendents in New London and Groton defending their budget plans pointed out the troubling trend of homeless students in their districts.
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Groton The Groton school district is getting ready to shift to all intradistrict, themed magnet elementary schools next school year in a plan the district says will help the school communities mirror the community at large and engage students in new ways of learning.
Families are deciding whether to send their children to the school they are zoned for, or to apply through a lottery process to one of the schools in a different part of town.
Under the Groton 2020 plan, the district will open two new intradistrict magnet schools in September on the sites of the former West Side and Cutler Middle Schools and transform Charles Barnum Elementary School into a themed magnet school. Northeast Academy Arts Magnet School and Catherine Kolnaski STEAM Magnet School will continue as intradistrict magnet elementary schools, while Claude Chester, S.B. Butler and Mary Morrisson elementary schools will close at the end of this school year.