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The closing of 16 Cleveland schools will begin long before the last person leaves and locks the door.

A more gradual process starts Saturday when transition teams representing the 14 elementary buildings on the list meet at Harvey Rice Elementary School on East 116th Street.

The closings are part of a “transformation plan” designed to use buildings efficiently and invest scarce resources in improving academics.

The transition teams — each with about 15 members representing staff and families — will get together weekly through the summer, discussing proper farewells for their old schools and concerns they have about where students go in August. District officials will work with the teams and take their comments into consideration.

The district will decide later how to smooth the move from East and South high schools. Planning is complicated because older students are more likely to take advantage of rules that allow them to choose high schools throughout the city.

“We want to have solid numbers, solid ideas of where kids will be going,” said Clifford Hayes, head of an office created to manage the closings. Besides holding ultimate authority over the transition teams, he will take responsibility for students’ building assignments and transferring books, records and other property.

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Article courtesy cleveland.com