Smoldering tensions among parents and teachers of children who attend E.J. Martinez Elementary School have again ignited into fury over the Santa Fe school board’s recent decision to permanently shutter the aging midtown building.

After the board voted at a hot-tempered meeting in August to raze and close the site on San Mateo Road — rather than rebuild, as previously planned, because of surging construction costs and declining enrollment across the district — board members proposed possible concessions to make E.J. Martinez students more comfortable in a wing of nearby Chaparral Elementary School, where their classes have been housed for over a year due to roof damage that rendered the E.J. building unsafe.

Outrage over the board’s reversal — what members of the school community called

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