We are parents, caregivers, educators, and community members engaged in helping to prevent the closure of schools in the Onteora Central School District.
“Closing our schools would be living out a self-fulfilling prophecy of reducing these great communities to tourist destinations. This is our opportunity for the next era to grow our towns, to let them thrive!”
— Megan B, West Hurley
Phoenicia Elementary
Bennett Elementary
Woodstock Elementary
“Failing to address the systemic abandonment of rural America’s schools will only deepen inequity. Instead, legislators and educational leaders should embrace this opportunity to reimagine how a comprehensive approach to rural communities could reduce the burden on small schools while improving communities’ social welfare.”
— Noah Secondo, Harvard Political Review