Feb 27, 2012 | The Times-Picayune
Dozens oppose Jefferson Parish school closure plan at hearing
Dozens of parents and community activists showed up at a public hearing Monday night to protest a plan that could close as many as five Jefferson Parish public schools at the end of the current academic year and ease ovecrowding at three others.
Overcrowding remedy in Jefferson Parish public schools could force hundreds of student transfers
A plan to ease crowding at the largest elementary school in Jefferson Parish, the 1,125-student Estelle Elementary in Marrero, could set off a chain reaction shifting hundreds of students among five West Bank sites for 2012-13 and creating the school system's only campus spanning pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.