Members of the TUSD board warned a jubilant crowd that the schools could be back on another closure list next year as the district continues to grapple with projected budget deficits triggered by a slide in student enrollment.

Ochoa, in the Downtown area, the East Side's Wrightstown and Midtown schools Rogers and Corbett were all targeted for closure in part because of low enrollment.

"You have to be happy with that vote," Steve Courter, president of the Tucson Education Association, said after the board mustered only two votes to close Wrightstown, the smallest of the four schools. "The next challenge is to start filling those schools."

Although it may not seem like an immediately fiscally responsible thing to do, I applaud the board for not making a rash decision and giving the schools an opportunity to right the ship.

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I heard that the Tucson Unified School District has decided to close Corbett Elementary School so I thought I'd go get some photos of the campus (and of course we took Elway the Dog, too):


See the rest of the Corbett photos here.

After Corbett we decided to head to Alice Vail Middle School:


See the rest of the Vail photos here.

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