Board Meeting Packed Over Proposal To Close 5 Schools

By Lauren DiSpirito
GOLDEN, Colo. (CBS4) – Approximately 475 people attended a Jefferson County School Board meeting on Thursday as the board mulls proposed cuts that could include closing five elementary schools, defunding the district’s only Gifted and Talented high school program, shift sixth-grade students to middle schools, and reducing staff positions.
Before the meeting parents donned t-shirts with messages that read “We are Peck,” and handed out “Save our Sc