The decision requires district staff to select two sites from the current Mira Monte Elementary, Topa Topa Elementary, San Antonio Elementary and Matilija Middle school campuses to house the pair of elementary schools. Combine middle and high school at Nordhoff High School's campus.Consolidate elementary students at two K-6 campuses, with potential for one to house a K-8 program.Turn Meiners Oaks Elementary and potentially a second site into early childhood education centers.They settled on a proposal from Halverson: Last month, the board moved unanimously to close two campuses as part of a $3.8 million, county-mandated slate of cuts, but honed its focus during a nearly three-hour discussion in Matilija Middle School's auditorium late Wednesday. Trustees Jim Halverson and Shelly Griffen joined Chandler while Atticus Reyes and Phil Moncharsh opposed the motion. "The goal is to be able to give the best education possible to all of our children, and I feel like this is the first step in that direction. "The reality is you have a finite amount of resources," board president Rebecca Chandler, who backed the plan, said Thursday. Trustees split over some details of the plan - the final motion squeaked by 3-2 - but were in lockstep on the need for closures as the district tries to wrangle a shrinking student body and depleted budget. The changes will significantly cut staffing while repurposing the campuses for uses other than traditional schools. The financially beleaguered district's plan also allows up to two additional campuses to be converted to preschool and transitional kindergarten and a third could house the district's main office, relocated from its current downtown Ojai digs. Ojai Unified School District trustees voted Wednesday to combine four elementary schools into two and move the district's middle school students to Nordhoff High School.
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