PORTLAND — The grassroots advocacy group Protect Our Neighborhood Schools is circulating a petition calling on the School Board to commit to renovating and updating all four elementary schools that were part of a $64 million capital bond approved in November 2017.
The petition was created, the group said on its Facebook page, because under the school district’s ongoing Enrollment and Facility Study “public officials are now saying all four schools may not be renovated after all, and school closure is up for discussion.”
Protect Our Neighborhood Schools said parents of students at Presumpscot Elementary School “are leading the way (and) Longfellow parents are right behind them.”
The four schools scheduled for renovation are Longfellow, Lyseth, Presumpscot and Reiche. Groundbreaking is expected on the Lyseth project in early 2019.
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