Walton Elementary became a charter school, in 2005, embracing project based learning with an emphasis on agriculture. For a time settling closure talk that has plagued the school for a lifetime. But the as the district struggles with the loss of hundreds of elementary school students, the board of education has chosen to host a public hearing that could be the first step in the process of closing the nearly 60-year-old elementary. [Courtesy Image]
The Newton USD 373 Board of Education has debated, for months, the future of not only Walton Elementary but the agricultural project based learning program…
