Boundary Review Committee Meetings

Hi Everyone,

A few of us attended the Boundary Committee meeting last night. Below, is listed the future dates of the upcoming meetings. They will be held from 6:00PM - 8:30PM in the Annex Building (the same location as the School Board Meetings). Please attend as many of these as you can; we need people from the Highlands at these meetings!

Boundary Review Committee dates:

• March 5
• Mach 19
• April 2
• April 16
• April 30
• May 7

Goal: Preliminary recommendations by May 7th

A public viewing of proposals (not open for public discussion - basically will be telling us what their recommendations will be) will be held at the 3 District High Schools on the following dates:

• May 20
• May 21
• May 22

Final public meetings will be held on:

• June 4
• June 18

October 1st enrollment info for the school year of 2008 will be the critical marker for the final decisions = the Board will need to assess for any major swings in enrollment. If there are no major changes, then one final meeting will be held to confirm up the boundaries.

Students will be placed back in their "home schools" as a starting point for the committee to work with. In addition, they will utilize enrollment projections, student generation factors, and housing development growth trends to facilitate the process.

Please keep in mind, there is no guarantee that those that live closest to their neighborhood school will be able to attend it!

It will be interesting to see if the committee follows the facilitator's (hired per the School District) comment, "We DO NOT want parents saying that their child cannot attend his/her neighborhood school because of another child from outside the area is attending it...." This comment was made in reference to ALL schools!

Open enrollment (if there is room) for all schools will be available once the schools have the allocated students in place.

Thanks to everyone who has supported this issue!!!!

Leslie Warrick