Richmond County School Board members discuss proposed rightsizing plan

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By Navideh Forghani nforghani@nbcaugusta.com

Story Published: Nov 14, 2008 at 8:14 PM EST

Story Updated: Nov 14, 2008 at 8:57 PM EST

AUGUSTA, Ga. - NBC Augusta 26 News is learning more about the Richmond County Board of Education's plan to be more efficient while educating your children.

Friday night, Richmond County School leaders came up with several ways to put their rightsizing plan into place.

They are considering consolidating East Augusta Middle and Hornsby Elementary. This would create one administration staff for the schools.

They are also looking into changing Tubman Middle to an educational center that would house the county's alternative, GED, adult educational classes, and other programs. This means Bungalow Road and Forest Hills would be closed. School leaders say they will let all graduating seventh graders finish out the eighth grade at Tubman.

The school district also wants to rezone. This would balance out the number of students at each school.

They are hoping to start parts of the rightsizing plan by next school year.

Superintendent Dana Bedden tells NBC Augusta 26 News, no jobs will be affected by the changes.

Also, on Monday Superintendent Dana Bedden will address the media's questions about rightsizing. NBC Augusta 26 News will bring you that information.

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Monday, Nov 17 at 7:59 AM Louis Svehla wrote ...

They are not looking to do away with the Magnet schools. They are looking to put additional programs in other schools. In fact, they just expanded AR Johnson to include the 7 and 8 grades. The magnet schools aren't going anywhere.

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Saturday, Nov 15 at 7:48 PM Tammy wrote ...

I am highly concerned about vague comments about changes to the magnet schools. It is highly important to leave in place that which works exceptionally well. If they are only talking about extending some programs from the magent schools that work to the other schools, fine. But if they're talking about doing away with the magnet schools and dispersing those students to other schools....BAD IDEA.

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