Reading School Committee Votes No Change on Redistricting
The School Committee voted 5-0 Monday night.
The School Committee voted on the middle school redistricting proposal Monday night. According to Superintendent John Doherty, the committee voted 5-0, as one member was not present, to keep the existing lines. The committee had been considering changing the district lines for the Coolidge and Parker Middle Schools since October. At first, the committee considered a two-part redistricting proposal: sending all Birch Meadow students to Coolidge, including the 7 to 13 students now districted to Parker; and increasing the number of Killam students who are assigned to Parker by between five and 15 students each year, over the next six years, based on current enrollment. That change would have reduced the percentage of Killam-to-Coolidge …
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Don Key
2:27 pm on Thursday, November 29, 2012
Kathleen, this is about redistricting. Of course it will have an impact on little Debbie or Dan, if they are assigned to a different school than the majority of their former peers, but this can't be about the individual. The negative impact a few students/parents encompass due to redistricting shouldn't deter the town from making the right decision to redraw the lines for the future. The object … more ›