Flint School District Offered $400,000 for Shuttered Elementary School

The Flint School District has been offered $400,000 for the shuttered Bryant Elementary building. However, according to MLive, the Board of Education says they need more time to make the decision on selling it, along with a warehouse and a bus garage. The board voted 7-1 during a committee meeting on Wednesday not to move the offer to the full board. Some on the board feel that charter school Northridge Academy, which is less than a half-mile away from Bryant, would pull more students from the Flint School District. Northridge Academy also offered $550,000 for the district's warehouse and bus garage on Dort Highway. MLive says that interim superintendent Larry Watking believes the offer will come back to the board at a later time. The Flint School District is currently in the middle of a $20.4 million budget deficit.