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Plano ISD to explain boundary reforms in Spanish

Plano 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 reforms

Plano 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...


LIVE: Plano ISD board meeting on boundaries

Updated 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 vote

Welcome 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 transfers

Photo: 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 ISD talks boundaries, prepares for Tuesday

A 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 magnets

Plano 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 trustees discuss issue of no-split feeders

A 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,...


Plano ISD boundary discussions start tomorrow

Last 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...


PISD reforms: Diversity vs. neighborhood schools

Photo: Stewart F. House/Special ContributorPlano ISD's proposed boundary changes, especially on the city's east side, have sparked a heated debate over the merits of diversity and the idea of neighborhood schools. I looked into those issues in a story about...


Plano test scores show impact of student poverty

Much 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...


Central Plano school busing plan divides parents

Photo: Matthew HaagA few hundred parents crammed into Plano Senior High School's cafeteria Wednesday night to voice their concerns over proposed boundary changes for the district's central and west school clusters. Jeff Duke walked to the lectern as one of...


Plano ISD boundary reforms split eastside parents

Source: Plano ISD The criticisms east Plano parents directed at the district's proposed school boundary changes Monday night smacked of a Hollywood drama. Some parents said the district's proposals split school boundary zones by race, socioeconomics and by the haves...


Plano ISD reforms target eastside school growth

Photo: Juan Garcia/The Dallas Morning NewsPlano ISD is hosting public hearings this week at the district's three senior high schools to discuss several proposed school attendance zone realignments. The district has said that attendance zones need to be redrawn to...


Latest swine flu victim: Richardson HS student

tweetmeme_url = 'http://planoblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/09/richardson-16-year-old-the-lat.html'; tweetmeme_source = 'Plano_News'; Dallas County health officials said today that a 16-year-old Richardson student became the county's fifth person to die from the swine flu. The girl, whose name hasn't been released, attended Richardson Berkner High...

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