BELLEFONTAINE NEIGHBORS, MO (KTVI) — The unaccredited Riverview Gardens District started school without hundreds of students who transferred elsewhere.
Hundreds of families took the opportunity to send their kids to accredited districts. St. Louis Public Schools superintendent Dr. Kelvin Adams spoke at a church event Sunday morning. His district regained accreditation just in time for this school year. Yet, he still spoke out on the case that upheld the state law requiring struggling home districts to participate in the transfer program.
“My heart goes out to those school districts as they struggle to deal with this case called the Turner Case, as far as those students leaving the district and going to other districts,” he said at Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in North St. Louis. “I know, as a fact, those districts will probably be bankrupt by January just because they’re losing their population and losing kids.”
It is estimated that Riverview Gardens will have to pay at least $8,000 in tuition for each student who transfers out of the district. That does not include the transportation fees for students transferring to the Mehlville School District.
Riverview superintendent Dr. Scott Spurgeon has said he does not think the transfer program will bankrupt the schools, but he said it will be a financial burden on the already struggling district.
Officials said Monday they did not want to speak on the transfers, but instead they would focus on the students who stayed. An angry parent confronted a district spokesperson about not receiving a bus schedule. The mother said she came to the school to drop off her son.
Officials invited parents to go to the website to find resources and resolutions to any concerns.
Find out more: http://www.rgsd.k12.mo.us/Default.asp?PN=Schools2
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