One day before the Pittsburgh Public Schools board votes on the future of several schools, parents packed a meeting and urged members to vote against closures.

On Tuesday, the board is scheduled to vote on closing nine school buildings as part of the district's Future-Ready Facilities Plan. Almost all the 80 speakers at Monday's meeting were against the plan, calling it rushed and reckless. They said the children will be the real losers.

"We don't feel that this plan that they've done their homework, research," parent Vanessa Dagavarian said.

Some of those schools include Allegheny 6-8, Arsenal PreK-5 and Manchester PreK-8. Some of the schools slated to close would reopen as other schools.

"The math for this plan does not add up," parent Martha Riecks said at the meeting. "The plan,

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