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The preschool plan will cost $2.2 million, according to the district’s budget breakdown.
During the May 12 Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meeting, ACS requested $3 million for its preschool program. Should commissioners approve the district’s budget proposal in June, the leftover $800,000 likely would go into the district’s dwindling fund balance.
The preschool program’s budget plan appropriates $500,000 for Asheville Primary repairs.
“At some point, we’re going to have to make some really hard decisions, but it doesn’t mean we’re going to have to not grow Montessori, and it doesn’t mean we can’t grow, hopefully, or maintain our pre-Ks,” ACS Superintendent Gene Freeman said.
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The future of Asheville Primary School is still up in the air after Asheville City Schools Board of Education, during its May 10 meeting, postponed voting on plans surrounding the school’s closure.
A vote to close the school by spreading its preschool classes among other Asheville City Schools and moving its Montessori classes to Hall Fletcher Elementary School will take place during the next board meeting May 24.
ACS Executive Director of Student Support Services Shane Cassida presented the BOE with three options for Asheville Primary: leave the school as is with Pre-K through third grade, keep the preschool classrooms and use the rest of the building for auxiliary services or fully convert the building to an auxiliary services facility.
Asheville City Schools is expanding the preschool program to include six locations with 12 classrooms and a capacity of 216.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the district had four locations with 11 classrooms and a capacity of 198 students. These numbers do not include Montessori students or a child care classroom at Asheville High School.
The district s largest preschool program at Asheville Primary School will close after this school year the latest development in a contentious plan to close the West Asheville school altogether.
Asheville Primary s six preschool classes will be spread among existing district preschools programs at Hall Fletcher, Ira B. Jones and Isaac Dickson elementary schools, according to a recent press release.
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