One after another, parents, teachers and even elementary schoolers stepped up to a microphone in the auditorium of Poudre High School on Tuesday evening to voice messages that were sometimes sharp, other times articulated through tears, about widespread fears around plans to close schools.
Their audience: Poudre School District R-1 board members and Superintendent Brian Kingsley, who listened as speakers, many of them clad in 鈥渞ed for ed,鈥 demanded they take more time to decide how to consolidate schools, expressed how central their neighborhood schools have become to their families and accused a panel of leaders of pitting school communities against one another.
Budgets slimmed by declining enrollment are forcing Poudre School District leaders to consider closing schools starting in fall 2025 鈥 a decision that has stirred up anguish and anger among many families whose schools are at risk of shuttering.
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