Parents, kids protest Ontario school closures as school board convenes – Malheur Enterprise

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Parents, kids protest Ontario school closures as school board convenes – Malheur Enterprise

Fifteen parents and a dozen kids on Monday protested the Ontario School District’s plan to mothball a pair of rural elementary schools and put students in each grade into the same building. The school district is moving to a grade-based school system that will shutter Cairo and Pioneer Elementary Schools at the end of the school year.   The plan spearheaded by Superintendent Nikki Albisu puts students in the same grade in the same building inste…