The community push to keep the school open failed to persuade the board, which approved the proposal during its Jan. 22 meeting. As part of a wider, long gestating and contentious plan for the county’s schools, kindergarten through fifth grades will shutter at Broward Estates Elementary, a school with a large majority of Black students, and be repurposed as an early learning center instead.
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