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The federal filings and court coverage of 2023; the Tribune's 2022–23 coverage of the breakaway proposals
The closure was fought in the decree case itself: Save Clay, Inc., joined by Trustees Costello and McCullough, petitioned to intervene in 3:80-cv-00035 (filed 30 June 2023), arguing the closure would harm the minority students who were two-fifths of Clay's enrollment; the Department of Justice opposed, and Judge Simon heard the argument on 27 September 2023. Around the lawsuit ran a larger idea — that Clay Township should leave the corporation altogether: in June 2022 alumni Josh Gobel and Patrick Malloy proposed a separate Clay district taking Clay High School, Clay International Academy, Swanson and Darden — some 28% of the corporation's tax base and 13% of its enrollment — against Trustee Greene's quoted opposition; and on 7 September 2023 the County Council took up a resolution asking the state to study a split. Neither effort detached the township. The corporation that Roseland entered by a door this section could not find (the transfer article above) is the corporation it remains in; the attempts to leave it are part of the town's school record and print as such, at their outcomes.