Ypsilanti community members expressed several frustrations toward plans to close schools in Ypsilanti School District at Tuesday evening’s community forum at the high school auditorium.
First to the microphone, after Board President David Bates gave his “statement of purpose” for the meeting, was Maria Cotera, an active parent in the newly formed Ypsilanti Public Schools Alliance. Clipboard in hand, Cotera said the very structure of the meeting was not what she expected from a meeting labeled as a “forum.”

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