The West Contra Costa Unified School District abruptly shuttered Stege Elementary School last week.
Stege Elementary School on Sunday, July 28, 2024, in Richmond, Calif. The campus, which has been the subject of several complaints and a July 19 lawsuit over unsafe facility conditions was recently closed by the West Contra Costa Unified School District to repair environmental hazards. That’s how aghast community members on Sunday described a public slideshow illustrating the disrepair at Stege Elementary School.
Less than a month before the first day of school on Aug. 19, district officials announced that Stege’s roughly 250 students will instead beSeveral dozen people who attended a meeting Sunday — led by community members, including Stege alums — advocated for improvements that will ensure the elementary school remains a “stalwart” learning hub for its students, who are largely low-income, non-white and multilingual learners.
“What we’re trying to do today is to give just a tiny glimpse of what the children and our staff at Stege Elementary School have had to endure,” Mitchell-Keith said, explaining the community’s demands that California’s school standards are followed equitably across the district. “But God makes no mistake — this is a temporary closure, so that we can actually improve this school so we can grow good fruits.
West Contra Costa Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Kenneth Hurst, left, takes part in a community meeting regarding the closure of Stege Elementary School on Sunday, July 28, 2024, in El Cerito, Calif. The campus, which has been the subject of several complaints and a July 19 lawsuit over unsafe facility conditions, was recently closed by the West Contra Costa Unified School District to repair environmental hazards.
“Unfortunately, this gathering is probably 25 years too late,” Jackson said. “This is urgent, this is the foundation — you can’t send a report to the state saying that everything is 100% and the reality of the day says it’s 0%.”
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