CAMDEN, N.J. - Four schools are closing in Camden and that decision by the superintendent has some parents crying foul.Sharp, Wiggins, Cramer and Yorkshire are the four schools slated for closure at the end of the school year."Three of the four schools are 100 years old.
There has been deferred maintenance because there has not been enough money to invest in the projects that are necessary to keep the buildings healthy for our young people," Superintendent Katrina McCombs stated.Deteriorating old facilities too expensive to correct is one reason.
Dodging a 40 million budget shortfall for next year is another. Superintendent McCombs is letting parents know."We are already teed up to begin individual family calls, where I will be calling as.