20052006 Program Changes

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2005-2006Program Changes

• Presentation to the Bloomington Public School
  Board of Education, 2005

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Current Situation

• Elementary enrollments continue to decline except
  at Stevenson Elementary.
• Stevenson enrollment continues to increase.
• We are now at capacity at Stevenson.

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Options To Address this Situation

• Do nothing.
• Add mobile classrooms at Stevenson.
• Construct additional classrooms and other
  facilities at Stevenson.
• Redistrict attendance boundaries.
• Relocate one or more programs currently housed at
  Stevenson.

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Consequences for Each Option

• Do nothing
• This will result in more students in each
  classroom.
• Add Mobile Units
• We do not believe that mobile units are
  appropriate for elementary students.
• Add permanent classrooms and facilities.
• This is not preferred for three reasons
• The cost of new construction.
• 565 students is reaching the limit of what should
  be in one school.
• We have classrooms available in other schools.

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Consequences for Each Option

• Redistrict
• This becomes very disruptive to the neighborhoods
  impacted.
• Relocate one or more programs currently housed at
  Stevenson
• Developmentally Disabled (18 students)
• English as a Second Language (ESL) (36 Students)
• Bilingual Program (71 students)

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Special Education Programs

• Bent Behavior Emotional Disorder
• Irving Instructional LD
• Oakland Instructional LD
• Sheridan Cognitive Impairment, TSE
• Stevenson Cognitive Impairment
• Washington TSE

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Moving DD to Oakland

• Will need a full time nurse at Oakland.
• Will need to reconfigure classrooms at Oakland.
• Will need to reconfigure classroom washrooms at
  Oakland.
• Will need to reconfigure classrooms at Stevenson.

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RecommendationTransition the Bilingual Program

• Move all Kindergarten and first grade bilingual
  students to Sheridan (estimated 38 students).
• Transition one grade level to Sheridan each year
  thereafter until the K-5 bilingual program is at
  Sheridan.
• This will provide Stevenson with two additional
  classrooms for the 2005-06 school year.
• We will not need to do any reconfiguration of
  classrooms at Stevenson or Sheridan.
• 28 of the 71 bilingual students live in the
  Sheridan attendance area.

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RecommendationExpand the ESL Program

• Oakland and Washington Kindergarten and first
  grade ESL students will attend Oakland
  (approximately 15 students).
• Transition one grade of students every year
  thereafter until Oakland serves all Washington
  and Oakland ESL students.
• ESL students (grades 2-5) new to Oakland or
  Washington starting in August 2005 will be served
  at Oakland.
• Continue to serve all Bent, Irving, Sheridan, and
  Stevenson ESL students at Stevenson.

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Long Term Effects

• In four years
• All bilingual students will be at Sheridan
  (approximately 80 bilingual students).
• All Oakland and Washington ESL students will be
  at Oakland (approximately 20 students).
• All Bent, Irving, Sheridan and Stevenson ESL
  students will be served at Stevenson.
• The result will be approximately 75 to 100 fewer
  students at Stevenson.

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Next Steps

• ESC staff met with all elementary administrators,
  Becky Francois, Colin Manahan on 1/13/2005 to
  present this information.
• Dr. Nielsen met with Stevenson staff on 1/18/05.
• Dr. Nielsen met with Sheridan staff on 2/9/05.
• Dr. Nielsen will present this information to the
  Board of Education on 2/9/05.
• Dr. Nielsen will present this information to the
  Stevenson staff on 2/10/05.
• Dr. Nielsen will present this information to the
  Oakland staff on 2/11/05.

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Next Steps

• Meet with bilingual and ESL staff.
• Meet with parents of affected students.
• Get Board approval in February or March 2005.