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Entries tagged with 'Plano school boundaries'Plano ISD to explain boundary reforms in SpanishPlano ISD has added another public input meeting for the latest school boundary option. This one, Wednesday, Dec. 2 at Bowman Middle School, will be in Spanish. The English-speaking boundary discussion will be a day earlier at the Sockwell Center... Date set for public input on Plano school reformsPlano ISD has announced that parents can voice their opinions about the latest school boundary proposal at a Dec. 1 meeting. The meeting will be at the district's Sockwell Center in West Plano. Plano ISD lists that meeting as the... How would Plano ISD fund a magnet high school?Photo: Amy Conn-Gutierrez (Above: Plano ISD board talks boundaries)A lot of people on the blog have asked how Plano ISD would pay for a magnet high school at Williams if trustees approve such a plan. I spoke to board president... Maps of latest Plano school boundaries revealedMap: Courtesy/Plano ISDPlano ISD has unveiled the boundary proposals of the latest option -- one that would include converting Williams High School into a magnet school. See the maps here. Plano ISD has also posted the PowerPoint presentations of both... VOTE: Would a Plano ISD magnet school work?We know now that Plano ISD school leaders have embraced the idea of converting Williams High School into a magnet school, currently titled Williams Academy. Much of the school's details are undecided. But this much seems clear: Williams Academy would... LIVE: Plano ISD board meeting on boundariesUpdated at 9:02 p.m.: I've got to call it a night soon, but I wanted to recap the substantial developments out of tonight's school board meeting. Plano ISD leaders have embraced the idea of converting Williams High School into a... Cheat Sheet: Plano schools closer to reform voteWelcome to the Cheat Sheet, a bi-weekly notebook that previews items and reports on upcoming Plano ISD school board agendas. The Meeting: 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17 at Plano ISD's Sockwell Center. Leading Off: Folks, it looks like Plano ISD... Some Plano parents see "white flight" in transfersPhoto: Lara Solt/DMN (Above: Mendenhall Elementary School)For the past two months, much of the debate over proposed Plano ISD school boundaries has focused on the ethnic and socio-economic diversity in schools. I have a story in today's paper that looks... Plano Poll: Which elements fit in your school plan?Hi folks. We've got a new Plano Poll for you following a week off. We wanted to stay on the subject of Plano ISD school reforms as talks continue on how best to tweak the school district's intricate system of... Plano ISD talks boundaries, prepares for TuesdayA month ago, Plano ISD trustees created a subcommittee to study whether socioeconomics should be used in drawing school boundaries. After several subcommittee meetings, the trustees have partly directed their attention elsewhere. The questions about socioeconomic factors has now led... Plano ISD meeting: Magnets to take top billing?Some Plano ISD board members are set to meet Wednesday morning to discuss the looming school boundary changes. The subcommittee is billed to research whether socioeconomics should be used in drawing boundaries. But, if last week's meeting is any indication,... Plano ISD reforms: Trustees look into magnetsPlano ISD trustees weighing whether socioeconomic factors should be used in drawing school boundaries spent more time this morning on another topic: magnet schools. Trustee Missy Bender said Plano ISD is at a crossroads. Student enrollment has mostly plateaued, she... Plano ISD board set to talk socioeconomics againThe Plano ISD school board subcommittee tasked with studying whether socioeconomic factors should be used in school boundaries meets again tomorrow morning. The group -- made up of trustees Missy Bender, Duncan Webb and John Muns -- previously met last... Plano ISD trustees discuss issue of no-split feedersA Plano ISD school board subcommittee tasked with studying the idea of eliminating split feeder schools in the next boundary changes just wrapped up. The trustees didn't commit much news, other than they decided they needed to interview school principals,... Second Plano ISD subcommittee meets TuesdayWhen Plano ISD set out two months to draw new school boundaries, the district had hoped to eliminate the practice of split feeder schools. The proposals unveiled did just that. All of them aligned Jasper High School with one senior... Plano Poll: Public comments and the schoolsPlano school district leaders continue to debate proposed changes to its system of school boundaries, with final decisions to come (presumably) by year's end. In the meantime, the district's proposals continue to change. And, as it stands, officials are planning... Plano ISD trustees devise goals for school reformsI just returned from a Plano ISD school board subcommittee designed to possibily restructure the district's current guiding principles used to draw school boundaries. The first half of the meeting was open to the public despite that the meeting notice... Plano ISD boundary discussions start tomorrowLast week, we told you how the Plano ISD trustees decided to postpone a vote on school boundary changes and to create two subcommittees to further study the boundary issues. Well, we've gotten word that the first subcommittee meeting will... Guest Works: A request for civility and engagementFolks, here's a guest post by Julie Barrett, a frequent commenter on the Plano Blog You might know her better as Julieb. She's been engaged in the conversation about Plano ISD's proposed boundary changes. We asked her to share her... Plano test scores show impact of student povertyMuch of this week's debate about the proposed east Plano school boundaries has focused on whether low-income students perform better in economically-diverse schools. In essence, some parents have argued that an attendance zone for east Plano schools must promote socioeconomic... |