As the work session on the multi-year student assignment proposal began this morning, Assistant Superintendent Chuck Dulaney recommended two changes to the Dec. 16 staff proposal presented to the Board of Education. Dulaney recommended:
- Staff recommends that a transfer request for a student be automatically approved if that particular student will be impacted by district assignment decisions twice within a three year period. For example, if a student was in School A as either a base or a calendar applicant and board action changes that student’s assignment to School B and then subsequent board action would change the student’s assignment to School C after less than three years in School B, a transfer request for the student to remain in School B would be automatically approved.
- Staff recommends that when the “grandfathering” process leads to approval of a transfer for a student and the family applies for a transfer for a younger sibling who has also already begun attending the same school as the older sibling (for example, a rising 1st grade sibling of a rising 4th grade student or a rising 10th grade student assigned to a new high school that has a rising 11th or 12th grade sibling) that the transfer request for the younger sibling automatically be approved.
The board heard additional staff recommendations and then began reviewing the multi year assignment proposal that will fill 10 new schools over the next three years. Today’s work session is scheduled to continue until the board’s regular meeting at 3 p.m.