Grapevine-Colleyville ISD trustees voted<\/a> to close Dove<\/a> and Bransford<\/a> elementary schools to confront declining enrollment, rising costs and other factors.<\/p>\n During a special meeting Dec. 10 that ran nearly six and a half hours, the trustees adopted the recommendations of a committee<\/a> composed of parents, community members and district employees.<\/p>\n Passed in separate 5-2 votes, GCISD will:<\/p>\n Trustees Matt Foust and Dalia Begin voted no and attempted to delay the decisions.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a sad day for us, for everybody up here,\u201d said Foust, who questioned whether the committee\u2019s deliberations were transparent enough, compared to school board meetings.<\/p>\n Trustee Mary Humphrey countered that the community is aging with fewer children than the district once had.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t have any full elementary schools, not even close,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Consolidating schools will not diminish educational opportunities for GCISD students, Humphrey added.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is not our buildings that make us great. It is our people,\u201d Humphrey said.<\/p>\n Begin sought to delay the Bransford vote for 90 days to explore whether its current fine arts program could be widened in appeal.<\/p>\n More broadly, she said the district, which has a limited open enrollment program under which students from outside the district can enroll in GCISD schools, should consider opening that up.\u00a0<\/p>\n She pointed out numerous schoolchildren who live in the district\u2019s boundaries who do not attend GCISD schools as their families choose other options, including homeschooling.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to compete,\u201d she said. \u201cIf we do not compete, we will continue to lose students. This is an opportunity for us to rise up and compete.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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Dove Elementary School in the Grapevine-Colleyville ISD is one of two schools that trustees voted Dec. 10 to close. (Scott Nishimura | Fort Worth Report)<\/p>\n