Back to School: First public school consolidation experiment put to test in Beverly

Nearly four years ago, the superintendent phoned Rundle Elementary School principal Lynn Schlacht with a difficult question.
What would families in her northeast Edmonton community say if the district closed and merged aging, underused schools in the area, Edmonton Public Schools superintendent Darrel Robertson asked her.
“If they were going to just announce, ‘Oh, we’re closing these schools,’ then people would be upset. But if they were replacing them — we’re