TROY - More than a thousand people rallied at the State Capitol today, pleading with the Governor to restore funding to our schools.

Regardless of the last ditch efforts, districts are moving forward with plans to lay off staff and close schools.

Tuesday night, we learned Troy’s School Superintendent has recommended Public School 12 to close.

The announcement comes on the heels of a months-long process of looking into the pros and cons associated with each elementary school in that district.

School 12 has the highest enrollment of students.

But it's also a school listed in need of improvement by the state.

The Board of Education will vote on whether to close Public School 12, Wednesday night, at Doyle Middle School.

The Board President told us they will take public comments before the vote.

NewsChannel 13 will be there, as we have been every step of the way.

For the 8th year in a row, the pre-kindergarten class at the Susan Odell Taylor School brought a bit of spring to the school today by delivering spring flowers.

Each year, the students sell daffodils as a service learning project to help raise funds for the American Cancer Society.

This year, the class raised $1,125 for the charity.

The pre-k class collected money for the flowers, and then determined how many flowers they need to order and how many flowers go to each customer, which are usually faculty or parents.  They then delivered the flowers this morning.

After a months-long process of studying the pros and cons associated with each elementary school, the Troy City School District's Board of Education is days away from making a decision.

At a public hearing Monday night, parents put in a passionate plea for their child's school for what may have been the final time.

A committee has been studying six possible options for several months. The schools that may close are School 2, School 12, School 14, School 16, School 18 and Carroll Hill School.

Troy City School District Superintendent Fadhilika Atiba-Weza began the public hearing by comparing the pain of having to close a school to the emotions of the Catholic church closings from previous years. And he asked people to be kind to one another, saying this process was not meant to pit groups of people against each other.