Stoklosa School

By now everyone has heard the news: the Kathryn P. Stoklosa Middle School will not open on time. The contingency plan calls for splitting the Stoklosa population between two older schools and getting the new staff of the Bartlett, now the Bartlett Community Partnership School, up and running. (For those who haven't been following the schools that closely, the Bartlett staff is moving to the new Stoklosa and the new Bartlett will take the children from the Demonstration and the City Magnet Schools and form a new K-8 school in partnership with UML). This frees up the City Magnet School space in the McDonough building for the high school, which will use the space to create the new Freshman Academy.

It's going to be an interesting year in the Lowell public schools as these new plans are put into action. Not having the Stoklosa open on time is too bad, but the decision to keep the freshman academy and the new Bartlett on track is a sound one. This way only one plan is kept on hold instead of three.

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