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Two days after school closures were voted down, the controversial proposal was resurrected in Tucson's largest school district.

Roger Pfeuffer, superintendent of the Tucson Unified School District, said a list of schools that potentially could be closed will be released on Wednesday. That evening, at a time and place to be determined, district officials will hold a public forum to discuss TUSD's projected budget deficit and the potential savings school closures would mean.

Meanwhile, TUSD governing board member Joel Ireland has requested that school closures be placed on the board agenda for the next meeting, scheduled for Feb. 12.

At that meeting, Pfeuffer said, the board will discuss potential school closures and vote whether to begin public discussion of the issue, the first step needed to close schools.

Tuesday night, the board narrowly voted against taking that step with Corbett, Ochoa, Rogers and Wrightstown elementary schools.

The 3-2 vote was met by cheers from hundreds of people at the special board meeting.

Although Ireland voted against pursuing the closures, he also requested officials look at other schools when revisiting the issue. In the surprising move, Ireland also proposed initiating public discussion of closing Naylor Middle and Rincon High schools.

TUSD officials had hoped to save up to $4 million by shuttering the four elementary schools.

District officials have said TUSD must implement cost-saving measures before the next school year, because they're already projecting a budget deficit of $15 million. Other cost-saving measures that have been proposed include raising previously lowered kindergarten and first-grade class sizes as well as teacher and staff cuts, program consolidation and across-the-board budget cuts.

On top of that, it remains unclear how TUSD and other districts will fund a multimillion-dollar state mandate for four hours of English instruction for English-language learners next year.