Schools across the city are slated to close to make up a shortfall in the district's budget. No official announcements have been made yet.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Westside High School is one of the many schools potentially on the chopping block as Duval County Public Schools looks at ways to close a"Not happy about that," LaToya Walker, a Westside HS parent, said. “It's given them a sense of pride. They built friendships and relationships.""I work with the principal and the community to kind of bridge that gap to bring awareness to what we're trying to do for the schools," Walker said.
“It's estimated to be $122 million now versus $62 million that we estimated in 2018, nobody knew the pandemic was going to hit us," school board member, Warren Jones, said. said renovating nearby Ed White High School and consolidating it with Westside HS would be cheaper.
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