Arcadia : Objections to School Ideas
City officials on Tuesday objected to some of the controversial recommendations made by an Arcadia Unified School District task force to ease the impact of increasing enrollment, overcrowding and deteriorating classrooms in the financially strapped education system.
In a resolution approved unanimously, the City Council urged the Board of Education to reject proposals by the 36-member task force calling for moving the ninth grade to the high school level; building middle schools for sixth through eighth grades; demolishing First Avenue Junior High School and leasing the land for residential and commercial development, and selling Santa Anita Elementary School, which was closed in the early 1980s, to raise funds to build new classrooms at two junior high schools and a high school.
The council recommended that the board let residents vote on a fund-raising bond issue.
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