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In June 2023, a chunk of concrete fell in a hallway at the Winter Hill Community Innovation School in Somerville, Mass., sending students to other schools or Tufts University.
A year later, the city is still trying to figure out what to do with the K-8 school, which was closed at the end of the last school year and students have spent the last year at the Edgerly Education Center, reports Boston.com.
The city's director of infrastructure and asset management says officials found the school to be structurally sound last summer, but cracked prefabricated concrete and asbestos had to be removed.
Now, the city is trying to figure out what to do with the K-8 school, which the Somerville Educators Union says was neglected by the city for years.
"They warned us a year before the collapse that if they did not receive support from the city that something bad could happen, and that is exactly what happened," City Councilor Willie Burnley, Jr., tells Boston.com.
The city is considering three options: building a new school, selling the Winter Hill building, or finding a new use for it.
But parents and students say they want the city to find them a new school ASAP.
"I just really don't want them to forget about the Read the Entire Article
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