News Update

The Atlanta school board has approved most of the school-building closings proposed by Superintendent Benjamin O. Canada.

The board voted this month to close 12 elementary schools by June 1996 and to merge two high schools in the fall.

Mr. Canada had initially proposed closing 18 of the district's 106 schools. He said that the district had kept too many schools open during decades of shrinking enrollment, and that the facilities slated for closure would be especially costly to renovate or equip with new technology....