CSISD Board Holds First Rezoning Hearing

The College Station school board hosted the first of three public forums Wednesday night on proposed changes in attendance zones. Over 100 who attended heard none of the 17 speakers support recommendations made by a 37 member committee.

Most of the speakers, including Fiesta Garrett, wanted all the schools at all grade levels to be close to the district average of 40 percent of students on free and reduced lunches.

Click to hear Fiesta Garrett comments:
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Kyle Harrington, was among those pointing out some schools still had too few or too many students from low-income homes.

Click to hear Kyle Harrington comments:
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Another concern was splitting neighborhoods, which Kendra Graff of Edelweiss Gartens says would happen.

Click to hear comments from Kendra Graff:
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Beth Miles asked to expand grandfathering to include this year’s fourth graders.

Click to hear comments from Beth Miles:
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Two more forums will be held, next Tuesday and the following Thursday, at 7 p.m. at the Consolidated High School auditorium.

Click HERE to be taken to the CSISD website that has additional information on the proposed attendance zones.

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Posted by Bill Oliver on Sep 9 2010. Filed under Featured Stories, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry