Fox 12 Oregon covered the June 3 Board Meeting, including a brief background on the issue and a quote from Pete, a supporter of Save Lake Grove. Check out the video on the Fox 12 website:
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Subject: Urgent: Save Lake Grove Fields – Impact on Youth Sports Dear Lake Oswego School District Board, On behalf of Lake Oswego Little League and Girls Softball League, we are writing to express our deep concern about the potential loss of Lake Grove fields due to the Long Range Facility Planning Committee’s decisions. Lake Grove
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Highlights Watch the testimony on the LOSD website:
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After hearing from a multitude of our families it is the conclusion of this PTA membership that Lake Grove Elementary is vital to providing accessible education, fostering a sense of inclusion and community while ensuring opportunities for all students to thrive. After hearing from a multitude of our families it is the conclusion of this
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The Waluga Neighborhood Association Board unanimously voted to OPPOSE any final recommendations and decisions to permanently close and shutter Lake Grove Elementary School (LGES) at it’s present location. To be clear, our vote also includes opposing permanently moving LGES students and staff to Uplands School. However, we do understand when LGES is finally “rebuilt” on it’s current site as
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Lake Oswego School Board Testimony, May 2024 Research, Data and Evidence Supporting the Decision to Rebuild Lake Grove Elementary in Place Lindsey Boccia A newly re-built Lake Grove Elementary School in place is a smart, visible investment to drive GROWTH in enrollment and Capture Rates. The Lake Grove enrollment area is where the dense population
Whereas; In Ordinance 2454 of the Lake Oswego Comprehensive Plan, The Lake Grove Village Center Plan calls for an Elementary school in the vision statement. “Public Uses, including an Elementary school…are located within the Village Center and serve West End Residents…”. Ordinance 2454 is an ordinance of the Lake Oswego City Council amending the Lake
The “Smart Location Calculator” was developed by the EPA to measure environmental benefits as well as physical and mental benefits of walking to a location. It scores our current location of our Lake Grove School as the “smartest location” in all of Lake Oswego to have a building that serves the surrounding community. It scores
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The ripple effects of this supposedly small change would be felt far and wide – and not just by families with children in the district.
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Families rallied to save Lake Grove just days after learning the school is under threat of closure and development. Our aim was to draw attention to a little-known plan, moving all too fast through approval processes. Many expressed surprise that they hadn’t known about the district’s Long Range Facilities Planning Committee proposals sooner, and concern
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