Members of the Fayette County School Board are asking questions about the student redistricting plan. A workshop was held Tuesday to preview recommendations after a year-long review.
The rezoning committee, comprised of some two dozen people, drafted plans for boundaries for elementary, middle, and high schools in the state's second largest district. The workshop offered Board members a chance to ask about specific movement of students from one school to another.
Board Chair John Price says the new boundaries do not do away with the overall need to help all students progress. "We're gonna have to allocate more resources to those places where the students have high needs, which means with limited resources, we'll perhaps have to take away some resources in some buildings in order to provide in those buildings that have more students with higher needs," said Price.
Price anticipates another chance for interested parents to express their opinions. "The public needs another opportunity to give us input before we make a final decision and I don't know if the board will want to tweak any of these areas that were discussed today or any other area that they might see as they look through the plan or as we receive communication from other people as they look through the plan," added Price.
Parent John Gish and his wife attended the workshop. He says the rezoning effort over the last year has been lengthy but he called it a good and open process. "I think the community has become aware of some more of the issues that can't really be resolved through redistricting and kind of the additional recommendations that the committee has made I think are great going forward," said Gish. "And I think you're gonna see more community involvement beyond just events like this and I think that's a great outcome for this."
Price says it's now time for the board to thoroughly review the recommendations. Board action on the plan is not expected in the near future.?
