5 Inglewood schools slated to close

The Inglewood school superintendent announced Wednesday that the district will permanently close five local schools.The schools slated to close are Crozier Junior High, Hudnall TK-6 School, Highland TK-6 School, Morningside High School, and Kelso TK-6 School. The schools will close at the end of the 2024-2025 school year."We need to close some schools to remain competitive, improve instruction, and repair the schools that will remain open," Superintendent Dr. James Morris said.

I feel bad for everyone else but there's only two schools, high schools, and they're about to close one of ours," said resident Reina Carrillo.The district is paying more than $2 million each year to pay for the poor fiscal management that put the district into state receivership in 2012.Fre'Drisha Dixon says there's a solution coming.

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