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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read that the vote on the new school zones will take place on Dec 6th. We're not doing the other 5 exercises in frustration, I mean zoning. So I guess we'll learn then what the plan is? Or will the Nov 27th public hearing make it too contentious?[/quote]

I have no clue what you’re trying to say here.[/quote]

Ummmm, when the heck do we go from theorizing about the plan to knowing what APS will do? Or will the "troops" being rallied make APS delay the Dec 6th announcement noted on the website? They've already scrapped the other 5 zoning metrics because the walkability study was too contentious. [/quote]

What five “exercises” are you talking about? Is that the same as what you’re referring to as “zoning metrics”? If so, are you referring to the six boundary policy considerations, which have not actually been scrapped and will be used to guide this fall’s boundary process?[/quote]

Community participation was cut because it was too contentious after the walkability study.[/quote]

Planned community participation:

Tomorrow (8/7): Open hours with the staff to ask questions about the process

September 26: Community meeting to review boundary scenarios, ask questions, etc.

September 27-October 11: Communityy questionnaire to provide input on scenarios

October 3: Another staff open hours

October 17: Another community meetings to review revised scenarios

October 18-November 1: Community questionnaire on revised scenarios

November 27: Public hearing on boundary scenarios
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I'm glad to hear there is still going to be community input, but the sessions concerning how to redraw boundaries based on diversity, income, language, etc, are not reflected in this list. There were supposed to be six different things considered, each in their own study (which seemed very time consuming). This is condensed. I'm still glad people can comment though.[/quote]

Have you been through this process before? You don't seem to understand how it works. There's never a separate study done of each of the six considerations with its own public engagement period, at most sometimes the staff will put out *for illustrative purposes only* hypothetical maps of what boundaries would look like if you considered each of the six considerations separately (so one map considering only efficiency, one only proximity, one only diversity, etc.). The actual proposed scenarios are drawn based on a balancing of these six considerations by the staff, and then those proposed scenarios are put up for public commentary.[/quote]

I participated in the walkability study as a civic association rep. We were told, by APS, that they had planned to do 5 more studies. Around May, it was announced that they were not going to do the other studies.

And this was my first time participating in a APS study. I can only tell you what the staff told me. [/quote]

I think you may have misunderstood. After the walk zone review, the staff planned to do the location review for option schools, which would consider a number of relevant factors for which they were collecting data. That data included things like where there were concentrations of Spanish-speaking families (for siting of immersion programs) and where there were concentrations of poverty that might be addressed through option site placement, and all of that was assessed and included in the second round of location review assessment. Yes, the location review was subsequently suspended, but there was never a promise that option schools would be moved, one of the possibilities was always to keep them where they were.

After the location review was done and final option school sites were selected, then they were going to do a boundary redrawing for neighborhood schools, which would have used the six boundary policy considerations (efficiency, proximity, alignment, stability, diversity and contiguity).[/quote]

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