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Plan may help save some city schools: State panel to consider factoring in spaces used for community services.
Byline: Brent Jones
Feb. 22--The Baltimore school system might not have to close as many schools as anticipated if a statewide committee agrees to account for space for community services in calculating how many students a building can accommodate. With room for tens of thousands more students than it has enrolled, the city school board is in the midst of reducing the system's operating space by 15 percent over three years. The state has threatened to cut off money to the city for school construction and renovations if the system does not start operating more efficiently.
But the school closure process comes just as another initiative, the push for community schools, is demanding more use of unoccupied space. This school year, 27 city schools began operating as community schools, which…
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