Anxiety is mounting among teachers, caregivers and students at Cleveland Metropolitan School District about which schools will close, with the district set to announce a consolidation plan sometime this month.

Worries about his school closing led Joe Mack, an intervention specialist at Mary Church Terrell School on Cleveland's West Side, to preemptively start a petition to save his school.

Mack said it was because factsheets released by the district earlier this fall show Mary Church Terrell has one of the lowest ratings for its building conditions of the district's 60 elementary school. Although enrollment is relatively strong at Mack's school, better than about two-thirds of CMSD's other K-8 schools, the building is almost 100 years old. There are also two newer elementary schools a

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