FRANKFORT, Ky. (Aug. 10, 2021) - Today, Gov. Andy Beshear said in response to the highly contagious COVID-19 delta variant and recent U.S. Centers for.
Columbia Board of Education gets update on redistricting
CPS Administrative Building
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
The Columbia Public Schools held a Board of Education Meeting on Thursday morning. The agenda included discussions about additional phases of redistricting, weighted grades and asbestos removal.
Elementary Attendance Area Updates
The first phase will move about 100 students from Parkade Elementary School to Alpha Hart Elementary starting this fall. This initial phase was agreed to earlier this month.
Phases two and three of the plan have not been finalized yet. Originally CPS was presented with 17 options for redistricting and has narrowed it down to two main options.
The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. at the district administration building, 1818 W. Worley St.
People from Cooperative Strategies, contracted by the school district, will present options for elementary boundaries starting in August 2022. District Chief Operations Officer Randy Gooch provided background last week to the school board s Long Range Facilities Planning Committee. This is going to be an important meeting, Gooch said.
The school board paused work on redrawing the elementary boundaries during the pandemic.
More immediately, there will be a proposal for the crowded Parkade Elementary School, to start in August 2021 at the beginning of the 2021-22 school year.
Following Monday, three sessions at schools to provide feedback on the options will be held from 5-9 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The Tuesday session will be at Gentry Middle School; Wednesday at Jefferson Middle School; and Thursday at Lange Middle School.
Correction In stating Monday data from the district s COVID 14-day tracker, an earlier version of this article confused positivity standards with case rates.
Pre-kindergarten through fifth-grade students will return to a four-day model of in-person learning Jan. 19 after the Columbia School Board voted Monday evening. This was a revision of the boardâs Nov. 9 vote that would have sent elementary school students back to classrooms a week earlier.
Middle and high school students were already approved to return to in-person learning Jan. 19 under the boardâs Nov. 9 vote.
Following the holiday recess, district students will still begin classes virtually Jan. 5.