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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a question about the zone map. APS is saying they are doing this change because "Zone 1" will have +133 extra seats in 2023, and "Zone 2" will be -399 seats. So they are taking away 684 seats in Zone 1 (McKinley) and giving 683 seats (Key) to Zone 2. Doesn't that just leave Zone 1 551 seats short in 2023, while creating a surplus of 284 seats in Zone 2? I get that APS is expecting longer-term growth in Zones 2-4 in the 5-10 year horizon, but it also looks like the CIP deck proposes building additions or a new elementary school in those zones. How are they going to go back and address the shortage of seats in Zone 1, without eventually undoing the decision to make McKinley and option school five years from now? This seems like just moving deck chairs around on a sinking ship, and probably spending a lot of taxpayer money to move schools in the process. I won't have an ES kid by then, so am not personally impacted here, but it seems like all of this just takes time and money away from figuring out what to do about the looming high school seat shortage which is something that impacts everyone-- and the one place where the School Board and APS really haven't come up with any viable solution. Even cramming 800 more kids into the Career Center site still leaves APS short on high school seats. [/quote]

It helps not to be too rigid in thinking about the zones because planning units can move between zones.  For instance, Ashlawn is in zone 2, but is closer to zone 1 schools than to most of the other zone 2 schools.  Rezone the Ashlawn tail to schools in the east, and that will both use up a lot of the excess capacity in the east under these plans and will free up seats to take more students from the west.[/quote]

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