BACK TO YOU. ALL RIGHT, SARA, THANKS. WELL, THE FIGHT TO KEEP IOWA’S CRESCENT ELEMENTARY OPEN IS OVER. THE COUNCIL BLUFFS SCHOOL BOARD VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO CLOSE CRESCENT AND THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. AS WE REPORTED, THE DISTRICT SAYS JUST 64 CHILDREN GO THERE RIGHT NOW. AND KETV NEWSWATCH 7 QUANECIA FRASER IS HERE WITH TONIGHT’S DECISION AND RESPONSE FROM PARENTS QUANECIA ROB. JULI, MANY PARENTS TOLD THE SCHOOL BOARD THEY FELT LIKE THE PROCESS WAS RUSHED AND THERE WASN’T ENOUGH COMMUNICATION AFTER THE VOTE. ONE COUPLE TOLD ME THEY PLAN TO MOVE THEIR KIDS OUT OF THE COUNCIL BLUFFS SCHOOL DISTRICT ALTOGETHER. THEY CAN TELL US THAT THERE WAS SAD ABOUT THEIR DECISION. WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, IT DOESN’T SEEM LIKE THEY’RE SAD. AND IT REALLY SEEMS LIKE KIDS ARE JUST DOLLARS TO THEM. COUNCIL BLUFFS COMMUNITY SCHOOL SAYS THERE’S BEEN A STEADY DECLINE OF ENROLLMENT AT CRESCENT ELEMENTARY. THE DISTRICT SAYS MANY PARENTS WHO LIVE IN CRESCENT ALREADY CHOOSE TO SEND THEIR KIDS TO OTHER SCHOOLS. THE DISTRICT IS THE COPPER PIGEON IN THE DISTRICT IS $9,000 386 FOR KRESS. AND THE COST. IS $13,811. SO THAT EXCLUDES SPECIAL EDUCATION COSTS. AND I KNOW NOBODY LIKES TO TALK ABOUT FUNDING, BUT FUNDING IS A LARGE PART OF THIS EQUATION. IF WE HAD THE MONEY, IF WE WERE FULLY FUNDED, IF WE WERE FUNDED FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION, IF WE HAD THAT FUNDING, IT WOULD BE A WHOLE DIFFERENT CONVERSATION. AND MANY PARENTS SAID THEY FELT THE DISTRICT ISN’T GIVING THEM ACCURATE INFORMATION, BUT AS OF NOW, THOSE PARENTS WILL HAVE TO MOVE THEIR KIDS EITHER TO LEWIS AND CLAR