Projected bump in elementary students hasn't materialized
By Anne Cook
Sunday March 12, 2006
CHAMPAIGN – Numbers used to promote a 1997 Champaign school referendum show housing start estimates don't always translate into new students to fill schools.
In projections promoting a 1997 referendum to build Stratton and Barkstall schools, school officials based population projections on estimates of 1,343 new housing starts in the district.
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According to the Unit 4 administration, the comparison made in this article between 1999 and 2005 enrollments contains a serious error. The 1999 numbers show higher enrollments at several schools because at that time, students in the pre-kindergarten intervention programs were counted as part of the kindergarten enrollment in each host school. By 2005, the pre-kindergarten enrollment was considered separate from kindergarten enrollment each of these schools. Once those pre-k students are taken out of the 1999 count, the administration says there is no decline in enrollment numbers between 1999 and 2005.
For more information on the referendum and the reasons why it has been proposed, visit www.u4excellence.org
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