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swraith

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  1. WTF is that email that AISD superintendent just sent out?

     

    “In the past few days, members of our community have brought forward significant concerns about the integrity of specific individuals leading the process of applying community feedback to the updated plan.”

  2. Agreed with the lack of awareness of TEA takeover of HISD.  I have family with kids in Spring Branch ISD.  They are not aware or even following the HISD takeover.  I have raised the topic with them multiple times and they are just totally unaware of it happening.

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    Edited by swraith
    forgot some words

    10 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

    There seems to be zero urgency on this thing. Stock market ticking up still somehow, informally and anectdotely, nobody I talk to seems to care that the government is shut down and most don't even know in a "oh, this that still happening is it still shut down? btw what does that even mean?"

    It seems like the politically plugged in get it, but not sure how what % of the actual people that make up in the real world.

    Maybe if TSA and air traffic control go more than month without a paycheck, people will create urgency to revolve this prior to Thanksgiving travel. 

  4. 1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:

    So, in true AISD fashion, they set their working GIS data for the attendance zone options to public. If you know what to search for, you can find them.

    I don't know if these are what were considered or if one of these options was chosen.  However, the last modified date is pretty recent.

    Option 3 is the nuclear option.  Half of Northwest Hills will drive past Anderson to go to Navarro along with all of Allandale and most of Crestview.  It looks like LBJ, Northeast, and Eastside all get the axe. 

    Current:  https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=185958ef39cb4c15a016b9231ba17b8c

    Option 1: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=57e9c5655b4645859b3bd01c51f62e41

    Option 2: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=85c7eab9962d4056a5540d5e5a5d79cb

    Option 3: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=fe1cda4a5af24afabefc0369689d040a

    EDIT: these maps are of the verticals.  If you click on a boundary polygon, the pop up will tell you which elementary and middle schools will track to the high school in that option scenario.

    You weren't joking.  Option 3 is panic inducing.  Maybe that is just being floated to make either Option 1 or 2 more palatable.  

  5. Lamar's attendance boundary is absolutely massive.  The eastern edge of its boundary map could be changed to release some of its zoned students to any combination of O'Henry, Kealing, Webb, and Martin.  That would bring down Lamar's over capacity issue.  Which is called out on rubric with "School zone is too crowded".  Lamar's cost per student in terms of Building & Operations is high and should be addressed longer term.  I just don't see a scenario where Lamar is closed, particularly given its status as Fine Arts Academy, unless AISD decides to do away completely with the academy concept.

     

    I agree that "pain" is going to be distributed but I think that will come by major boundary zone changes, not by closing overcrowded schools on the west side.  Though the Bryker Woods parents seem to be in full force to save their school from perceived threats of closure.   Bryker Woods rubric score is identical to Gullett.  So maybe I'm just not reading the tea leaves correctly. 

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