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School closing delay sought: Reversal on Southwestern follows concerns about gang conflict.
Byline: Sara Neufeld
Jun. 9--In a reversal that could jeopardize millions of dollars in state funding, the Southwestern High School complex in Baltimore would not close this summer as scheduled under a proposal presented last night by the city school board chairman.
Chairman Brian D. Morris said he will ask the full school board to vote Tuesday night to postpone moving two of the four schools in the complex for a year. The proposal was made amid community concerns that a gang conflict would result from moving some of Southwestern's students to an elementary and middle school building.
Parents at Lafayette Elementary and Calverton Middle schools in West Baltimore have been in an uproar about a plan to move the Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts, one of four high schools in the Southwestern complex, under their roof. They say the move would cause a gang conflict and that children from…
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