Plan 3 Moves Ahead

Plan 3 was approved by the majority of the FUBTF members last night.  The plan now moves to the Board of Trustees.  Selected FUBTF members will present the plan to the AISD Board of Trustees on February 8 and the board will vote whether to accept the plan on February 22.  To view Plan 3, visit the AISD FUBTF homepage.

You have two opportunities to speak to the board regarding this plan:  January 25 and February 22.  The Board of Trustees allows public comment ONLY at their regular board meetings (the dates above). 

The board allows members of the public to speak for 2 minutes at either of these meetings.  To do so, you must go to the Superintendent's office on the morning of the meeting at 7:45am.  Speakers are limited to the first 30 people who sign up - first come, first served.  Lisa and I believe it would be helpful to have positive comments about the plan at one or both of these meetings.  Comments should address the task force criteria and should be delivered similar to the public comment meeting on January 5.

More information from last night:
Last night, the task force voted to grandfather incoming 5th graders at the schools that were affected by the boundary changes.  We learned that there are 31 students in VP and CCN who are incoming 5th graders next year and impacted by the grandfathering plan.  The district estimates that only 1/2 of those will choose to stay at Mills and only half of those will have one sibling.  (I'm not sure this is correct, but that's their formula.)  They estimate about 24 students will be grandfathered into Mills next year.  In addition, AISD staff estimates that we will have 63 incoming transfers, based on an average of transfers from the last four years.

So, that brings us to the estimated number of students at Mills next year.
Original Estimated Population for 2010:   1075 (without transfers)
Subtract Students moving to Kiker: 181
Projected New Population for Mills 2010: 894
Add Estimatd Transfers: 63
Add Estimated Grandfathered students: 24 (which could be more)
Total Expected Population: 981  or 117% of Mills functional capacity.

So when it's all said and done Mills reduces by about 120 students from current levels.
At this morning's principal's coffee, Mrs. Butler said she would be getting very strict on transfers given the current situation.

Kiker looks like this:
Original Estimated Population for 2010: 682
Add Students moving from Mills: 181
Projected New Population for 2010: 863
Plus their estimated transfers: 52
Minus grandfathered Mills students: 24
Estimated Kiker Population: 891  or 104% of functional capacity