Elementary Crowding and Capacity Committee ECCC Meeting

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Elementary Crowding and Capacity
Committee(ECCC)Meeting 10December 3, 2007
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Meeting Agenda

• 700 Housekeeping
• 715 Proposal Revisions
• 745 Staff Responses
• 815 Conversation/Breakout Time
• 845 Blind Ranking (see below)
• 915 Next Steps
• 930 Adjourn
• Blind Ranking
• Each school, VPI, Montessori, and FAC receives 5
  ballots
• Write your choice of proposal on each ballot (one
  vote, one ballot)
• You can give all 5 votes to one proposal or
  divide among the proposals

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From School Board Policy 25-2.2 Enrollment in
Neighborhood Schools, Preschools, Area and
Countywide Schools and Programs, and Transfers
Every student is guaranteed admission to the
elementary and secondary neighborhood schools
serving the area in which he or she resides. The
School Board is responsible for establishing
attendance areas for all schools. Although all
Arlington public schools use the same curriculum
and are held to the same state and national
standards, many schools have developed
instructional emphases, unique curriculum
delivery methods, or additional programs designed
to bolster student achievement. The School Board
provides a number of additional educational
options in which students may enroll recognizing
that individual students may thrive in a variety
of educational settings. Some schools enroll
students throughout the county others give
preference to identified geographic areas within
the county.
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From School Board Policy 30-2.2 Boundaries

• Assign students to a school who reside in
  proximity to that school including those who
  live in safe walk zones.
• Keep neighborhoods together.
• Avoid creating elementary school boundaries
  that do not contain the school to which students
  are assigned.
• Minimize transportation times.
• Minimize future capital and operating budget
  costs.
• Promote demographic diversity.
• Avoid causing students who have continued to
  reside in a particular geographic area to be
  affected by boundary change more than once at a
  particular school level, (e.g. elementary,
  middle, high).
• Avoid separating small numbers of students from
  their classmates when they move to a school at
  the next level.

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Previous Proposals
http//www.arlington.k12.va.us/15401081152149600/s
ite/default.asp