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Earlier this month, the Alachua County School Board took the first step in what I believe will be a historic journey for our students, families, staff and the entire community. Rather than creating a new attendance zone for the new Elementary School I under construction in the southwest Gainesville area, the board voted to relocate the entire student body and staff of Terwilliger Elementary to the Elementary I campus for the 2021-22 school year. The board also agreed that the families of other local elementary school students could request a zoning exception for their child to attend the new ...

Closing a Gainesville school might seem like a strange idea given that so many area schools are overcrowded. But Alachua County's public school district has a new elementary school scheduled to open on the west side in the fall, yet lacks the money to operate it. The School Board is consequently considering closing Terwilliger Elementary and moving its students to the newly built school while a broader rezoning is done. The closure would save $11.6 million in facilities improvements slated for Terwilliger and allow its operating budget to instead be spent at the new school, known for the time...

Sound Off for Jan. 10, 2021 The Gainesville Sun • Gainesville hasn’t changed. UF, as always, gets everything first — even the vaccine. • In reference to the guaranteed income, I think Mayor Lauren Poe should be first in line to take a pay cut from his city of Gainesville job to support this program. You know what they say: Actions speak louder than words. • Congratulations and thank you to The Swamp for rebuilding in Gainesville a design that will be good for the people and the planet, the opposite of concrete-canyon types elsewhere. • When the voters passed the latest School Boar...

Among the options the public school board is weighing: Move a couple of hundred students from Idylwild and Wiles Elementary, or shut down Terwilliger Elementary on Northwest 62nd Street and shift those students to the new school on the west side. The latter idea is expected to save $11.6 million in facilities improvements tapped for Terwilliger, and allow the district to complete a more comprehensive rezoning in the next two to three years.  Opposition to closing Terwilliger Many Terwilliger teachers and parents opposed the idea of closing the school, though for very different reasons.  Se...

After weighing several options, the county’s public school board has agreed to take a closer look at closing Terwilliger Elementary and sending its students to a new school farther west. Five options were up to be finalized Tuesday night by the public school board to fill the future, yet-to-be-named Elementary School I near Southwest 122nd Street. Selling the Terwilliger Elementary School property was the latest proposal, suggested earlier this month.  “We have growth in the west, the sprawl in the west that is necessitating this,” said school board member Tina Certain. “We’re goin...