Accommodations for Families and Year-Round Track Clarification

The Board of Education made an additional accommodation for families and cleared up some confusion regarding year-round track assignments at today's Committee of the Whole meeting.

By a unanimous vote, board members agreed that students in a year-round elementary school should be given some priority over someone in a traditional calendar elementary school in the application process to attend a year-round middle school. The priority would fall just below the priority already granted for those with siblings on the year-round calendar.

To clear up some confusion in the community, the board also discussed year-round track assignment. If a student at an existing year-round school moves back to his base school because of conversion, he will be given the same track assignment. For example, if a student is on track 2 at Turner Creek Elementary and moves back to Olive Chapel Elementary, he or she will stay on track 2. If the student wishes to change tracks, he or she may apply for a track change in March 2007 at the same time those already attending Olive Chapel can apply for a change. Olive Chapel students would indicate their initial preference for track assignment in January 2007.

Board chair Patti Head stressed that they were trying to accommodate as many families as possible and still fill classroom seats as efficiently as possible. Everyone is guaranteed a seat at their base school and then have a choice to apply to a magnet or calendar option, she said.

In other business, the school board agreed to the proposed new school locations presented last week as part of the Blueprint for Excellence 2006. We've added links to maps of these new locations, as well as the locations of major renovation projects on the Blueprint for Excellence 2006 online resource center.

Posted by Kristin Flenniken at 04:11 PM on October 10, 2006 | Leave Feedback

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