Urbana school board to consider redistricting committee

URBANA — A redistricting committee made up of school and community leaders for Urbana elementary schools could be in place by Tuesday night.

The Urbana school board is scheduled to consider the appointment of the committee at its meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Jean F. Burkholder Administrative Service Center, 205 N. Race St., U.

The proposed committee will look at how to redraw boundaries and would report its recommendations to the school board.

The new boundaries would be in place for the 2012-13 school year, according to school board President John Dimit.

The proposed committee would include the principal and two parents each from Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, Leal Elementary School, Prairie Elementary School, Thomas Paine Elementary School, Wiley Elementary School and Yankee Ridge Elementary School.

Each school's parent representatives would include one parent of a child who walks to school and a parent of a child who takes the bus from another area of the city, according to Dimit.

The committee would also include a real-estate consultant, two school board members and Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources Gayle M. Jeffries.

Following the meeting, school board members will take a tour of King Elementary School, Wiley Elementary School, the Urbana Middle School cafetorium and the Urbana Athletic Complex.

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Daxndata wrote on August 22, 2011 at 8:08 pm

How about just making it a school of choice system? That way each school will have to compete for the students.

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