Will East Grand Get Money For Closing Schools?

Here's one that should get the hackles in Grand Lake to come up:

"The U.S. Department of Education today said Colorado has been awarded $6 million for school turnaround work.

Districts must apply for a share of the School Improvement Grant money, which will be distributed by the state.

The four intervention plans to pick from are: a transformation model; school closure;[Check] turnaround model that replaces principal and large portion of staff;[Is that the 'financial' reason for the departure of three principals in Granby?] or a restart model that allows schools to close and begin again as charters."

Did the administration already have this money in mind when they persuaded the board to shut Grand Lake down? I would think so, since the money has been available since 2009. Is this behind the recent removal of the two primary and one assistant principle in Granby? Wouldn't this have been a material disclosure for the district to have made when discussing school closures? With administration officials referring to well informed members of the public as liars, this just brings up more questions.

There's a bit of a silver lining here in that Grand Lake could apply for grant money to transform their elementary into a charter school.