Education
Last night I stepped into the lion's den. In other words, I attended a Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) reditricting hearing. These meetings are legendary and this one did not disappoint.
See my tweets (and other people's responses) on Storify or below.
So, this isn't our usual process for naming a school, but as discussed before, we can view this as rebuilding a school at the site of Northside Elementary. So on the agenda for this meeting (link to come as soon as it is posted) on October 4th is to make this official and name Elementary #11 as the new Northside Elementary.
Date:
Thursday, October 4, 2012 - 7:00pm
Location:
Chapel Hill Town Hall Council Chamber
SAPFO isn't perhaps the most interesting topic the BoCC deals with, but it will become critical if we have to stop all development in town. Agenda (link below) for our joint work session with the county and both school systems includes discussion of some modifications to SAPFO.
Date:
Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 7:00pm
Location:
Southern Human Services Center
By Geoff Green and Ruby Sinreich
With the the new Northside Elementary School, a.k.a. elementary #11, set to open next summer (as well as Frank Porter Graham Elementary School's transition to a dual-language magnet school), we'll be forced to go through another dreaded reassignment process to balance enrollment and capacity at our oft-crowded elementary schools. Superintendent Tom Forcella issued a memo on August 2 (PDF) about how this could go.
Forcella says he expects to reassign over 1,000 elementary school students. A redistricting team of 8 staff members has already been created. They are charged with creating three plans to be reviewed by a Redistricting Advisory Council, made up of staff and parent representatives from all the elementary schools and from Carrboro High School, which will recommend one to the School Board.
The Super 16th Annual Walk for Education will be held on Saturday,
October 13th at 1:30pm rain or shine. Walk for your school down
Franklin Street and enjoy the festive post-Walk carnival at Lincoln
Center. Fantastic inflatables, games, food and fun await you at the
carnival.
Date:
Saturday, October 13, 2012 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm
Location:
McCorkle Place to Lincoln Center
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