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When the Tampa school board voted in May to close Just Elementary School, it wasn’t a surprise. Just is the only school in Florida to receive an F from the state Department of Education, and fewer than 11% of its students can read at grade level. It’s already half-empty. In theory, the closure should have […]
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The standing-room-only crowd lined two deep against the walls of the downtown Tampa auditorium as scores of speakers implored the Hillsborough County School Board not to close Just Elementary. For months, Just’s fate had teetered, as the board weighed the practicality of closing a half-empty school against the difficult message that mothballing a mostly-Black campus would send to Tampa’s .