Clifton parents nominate school building for historic status

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Clifton parents have refused to accept the Fairfax County School Board’s decision to close Clifton Elementary, and are battling on to save the institution they say is the “center of our community.”

Parents of current and future Clifton students, with the help of the local nonprofit group Friends of Community Schools, have formally nominated the elementary school’s circa-1953 building for inclusion in the Town of Clifton Historic District.

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