Community meetings on potential DPS closures start Tuesday [Video]

The list of closures won’t be released by DPS Superintendent Dr. Alex Marrero until November. But DPS will be holding a series of community meetings about the process starting Tuesday.

DPS External Communications Director Scott Pribble said the district is changing how they’re going about it this time around.

“I would say that the last time that we went through this process, we ran into some bumps, so we wanted to make sure it was better this time,” Pribble said.

DPS said steady drops in enrollment have made these consolidations needed. 

“It really is a big part of it,” Pribble said. “The declining enrollment that we’re seeing, it’s not something that’s happened the last year or two. It’s been going on for about a decade now. And you can take a look …