Some of the items on the agenda for Tuesday’s board meeting:
The board is about to order an updated enrollment report, which will give us enrollment projections for (I’m assuming) the next ten years. This week, we’ll discuss what information we’d like that report to include. Info here.
We’ll discuss the board’s decision to bring back the seventh-grade football program that the district cut two years ago during that year’s wave of budget cuts. This issue came up at the board’s Education Committee meeting last month, and there was a consensus for allowing the program to be brought back. But afterward enough questions were raised that I asked to have the topic put on the agenda for further discussion. (See this post.)
The board will discuss our annual evaluation of the superintendent. By law, because it involves a personnel evaluation, this part of our meeting has to occur in a closed session (not open to the public).
At its work session after the regular meeting, we will also be continuing to discuss redrawing attendance zones in preparation for the opening of Liberty High in 2017 and Grant and Hoover East Elementaries in 2019. One topic will be what kind of additional maps and data the board would like to see as it goes into that process. Info here.
One thing I’d like to see is a map that would show what the elementary attendance zones would look like if we sent every child to his or her closest school. We can’t do that, of course, and might not choose to do it even if we could. But I think that map would help us explain to people why we can’t always do that. For example, it would show very clearly when the number of people who live closest to a particular school exceeds the capacity of that school building. In those cases where we have to send people to a school that isn’t the one closest to home, it would help to be able to have a clear explanation of why it had to happen. (See this post.)
Also goats. Goats are on the agenda.
All that and more. The full agenda is here. Feel free to leave a comment below about anything that catches your attention.
4 comments:
A closest school attendance zone map would be interesting. Maps with and without Hoover staying open might be interesting too.
The closest school maps already exist and were constructed as part of the last attempt to redo elementary boundaries.
I would like to know what FRL rates would be if every kid went to their assigned school/home attendance area as they currently exist. If it brings about an improvement, then perhaps it should be imposed for the next school year; and in-district transfers only approved if space exists and it does not harm FRL rates at either the receiving or leaving school.
Does the school district carry additional insurance when offering junior high football?
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