LOWES â The Graves County Board of Education opened its meeting Thursday to a crowd of Lowes community members, who turned out in support of their local elementary school.
The communityâs families appeared in droves to ask the board to consider all options before deciding whether to close the ailing elementary school and spread its student body to other schools in the district.
Jamie Sears Rawlings led the charge, saying many of the families are considering enrolling their children in McCracken County should Lowes Elementary ultimately close its doors.
âWhat Iâd like to say is that you guys have all personally promised the county and the Lowes community, really many times, that we would get a new school. And weâve waited patiently for that,â she told the board. âWe ask now that you open up more lines of communication with the LPC (Local Planning Committee), with yourselves â the board â with the KDE (Kentucky Department of Education), a
GRAVES COUNTY, KY â The Lowes community is calling for Graves County Schools to make major changes to the district s facility plan. Lowes Elementary was formerly a priority one project for the school district, but is labeled as a transitional facility in the newest draft of the plan. The Kentucky Department of Education will need to review the plan, and give comments back to the board.
Parents like Janie Burchard are pushing to keep the doors open. Give our children the chance and our school to do just that. We re not asking for any more than any other school in Graves County has already received in the last 20 years, Burchard said. We re asking you and the board members to stand and fight for our children.