Issue: Redistricting

We are once again in the midst of a redistricting process within our district to define what the neighborhoods are for our neighborhood schools. It is unclear whether these changes will occur for 2004-2005 or 2005-2006.

Originally, principals were supposed to choose parent representatives from their schools to participate in the redistricting committee. At some point, it was decided by staff to hand-pick a steering committee of five of the parents from this pool from different areas of the District. Because of the sudden change in procedure, Bayside PTA asked to be included in the steering committee as a general parent representative. We were rebuffed.

At the Nov. 19th School Board meeting, the redistricting process seemed to have been put on hold by the Board, pending the report of a temporary committee of George Harris and Karen Fenton, because of concerns about the process. But, somehow the temporary Board committee has simply been rolled into the steering committee, while the steering committee has proceeded to have 3 more meeting with a general meeting planned for late January.

Documents

description	click on a file format
The Board Policy 5116 defining the parameters of the redistricting process	Scan of Page 1 (GIF) Scan of Page 2 (GIF)
School enrollment figures from earlier in the year showing actual vs. projected	Scan of Page 1 (GIF) Scan of Page 2 (GIF)
School enrollment figures for 12/2003. (Reverse-engineered from HTML document at http://www.wccusd.k12.ca.us/os/enrollmentdec03.htm .)	Excel spreadsheet
A document from the Transfer Office showing official transfers to and from schools as of 10/7/2003	Microsoft Word Acrobat PDF
Not minutes, but a staff report on the 2d redistricting steering committee meeting of 12/02/2003	Microsoft Word Acrobat PDF
A staff status letter to parent unit representatives appointed by their principals to serve on the larger redistricting committee	Microsoft Word Acrobat PDF