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Emerald Several hundred local elementary school children must now be relocated after their schools were slated for closure March 21. Board shutters two schools ■ Citing reduced state funding, the Eugene School Board shut two schools By Aaron K. Breniman Oregon Daily Emerald Many felt that the decision to close Whiteaker and Bailey Hill el ementary schools was inevitable, but six raised hands and a confer ence call from an absent board member made it official March 21. The Eugene School Board voted unanimously to approve the super intendent’s recommendation to close Whiteaker and Bailey Hill el ementary sc'hools next fall. “For the past ten years, we’ve been tightening our belts,” board member Anette Spickard said. “The political and economic reali ty is not going to allow us to main tain what we would like to main tain — and it sucks, to put it briefly.” Superintendent George Russell said that closing the schools would reduce the fixed cost for operating the district. “For the past ten years, this dis trict has had to find ways to cut and slash programs as the re sources dwindle,” Russell said. “The total estimated cost for clos ing Whiteaker will bring the dis trict approximately $500,000 in savings.” Russell admitted it may not seem like much in a $100 mil lion budget, but he said every dol lar counts when looking to main tain programs. The board also urged concerned parents and community members to force the issue of education funding to be addressed by the Legislature. “We need to get this story to legis lators. Right now the feeling is that everyone is OK with the K-12 budg et,” board member Beth Gerot said. “We’ve all got to get this story out that this isn’t just a Eugene issue.” Board members compared the problem with decreased funding and enrollment in Eugene to Port land and North Bend, where school boards have already had to close schools. Bailey Hill students will be re distributed to Twin Oaks and Mc Cornack elementary schools, with some students having the option to attend Crest Drive Elementary if space permits. Whiteaker students will be consolidated with the stu dents at River Road Elementary, and those who wish to attend Pat terson Elementary will be permit ted to do so as space is available. While many of the recent school board meetings have been heavily attended by community members voicing opinions on the school clo sures, only three of the more than 50 people in attendance spoke at the meeting. Sharon Aly, a parent of a River koad Elementary student, attend ing her first board meeting, said that River Road Elementary will welcome the new students. “We welcome the diversity that the Whiteaker kids will bring us,” Aly said. “It will give our kids a chance to broaden their world by being exposed to different cultures.” However, Penny Healy feels that Whiteaker students will be shunned when they enter their new schools, where everyone will look at them as the “poor kids.” Healy has been adamant in telling the board that closing a communi ty school such as Whiteaker will have devastating effects on the children. She attended school board meetings as well as the fo rums held at Whiteaker and River Road elementary schools. “Honestly, a lot of [Whiteaker] parents left those meetings feeling that they weren’t wanted at River Road,” Healy said. Healy, the mother of a third grade student and a 6-year-old, said she plans to move to Spring field in order for her children to at tend Moffitt Elementary School, which she said has the “same feel as Whiteaker.” “My youngest doesn’t even want to go to school anymore,” Healy said. “She loved that-school.” News brief Arson suspected in house fire The Eugene fire department re sponded early Tuesday morning to a fire alarm at the home of the men’s basketball team head coach Ernie Kent. The house, at 3335 Park Hill, was unoccupied at the time of the fire and was in the process of being renovated. Eugene Police Department spokeswoman Pam Alejandre said the fire department called police af ter responding to the alarm because they suspected arson. Alejandre said there were several locations where a fire had been lit inside of the house, and there were no fires lit outside of the house. “The fires had mostly burned themselves out by the time the fire department arrived at the scene,” Alejandre said, adding there was no obvious evidence of a break-in. She said there is no indication of a mo tive for the fire at this time. “From here, we’ll process the evi dence and determine the source of the fire,” Alejandre said. Kent was out of town on recruit ment business but released a state ment through the University Athlet ic Department. “It is very difficult to be on the road at a time like this and get a phone call in the middle of the night, because immediately you start to think about the safety of your family and your team,” he said. “It is also very sad that someone has taken it upon them selves to do something like this be cause it is wrong, and whoever did this endangered the lives of others in that neighborhood.” Lindsay Buchele Oregon Daily Emerald P.O. Box 3159, Eugene OR 97403 The Oregon Daily Emerald is published daily Monday through Friday during the school year and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc., at the Uni versity of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. A member of the Associated Press, the Emerald operates independently of the University with offices in Suite 300 of the Erb Memorial Union. The Emerald is pri vate property. 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