APS Redistricting Round II - The Preview

[No Reservations]

 
The results - from what I understand - should be released on Monday, and should be an interesting study in whether the squeaky wheel does indeed get the grease.
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I heard from someone last night more in the know than I that maps are expected to be released on Friday in advance of next week's meetings...

[The Lord of the Jungle]

The results - from what I understand - should be released on Monday, and should be an interesting study in whether the squeaky wheel does indeed get the grease.

I heard from someone last night more in the know than I that maps are expected to be released on Friday in advance of next week's meetings...

I think the Board will see them today or tomorrow, and have the weekend to digest.  That's my understanding, but given the heretofore shotgun nature of releasing information, I wouldn't bet my cat on it.  Anticipating a leak would not be a stretch.  Then again, neither would anticipating a delay...

[debbie]

The new maps are up!

http://www.atlantapublicschools.us/Page/413

[Cap'n Ken]

The new maps are up!

http://www.atlantapublicschools.us/Page/413

Ah, just in time for the APS folks to head home for the weekend ...

[debbie]

The new maps are up!

http://www.atlantapublicschools.us/Page/413

Ah, just in time for the APS folks to head home for the weekend ...

Maybe it will give everybody the weekend to digest before the screaming starts.  At least BPA is off the chopping block in both these options!  Looks like we get Whitefoord kids in Option 1, and East Lake kids in option 2.

[Cap'n Ken]

The new maps are up!

http://www.atlantapublicschools.us/Page/413

Ah, just in time for the APS folks to head home for the weekend ...

Maybe it will give everybody the weekend to digest before the screaming starts.  At least BPA is off the chopping block in both these options!  Looks like we get Whitefoord kids in Option 1, and East Lake kids in option 2.

Yeah, Burgess survives, either brings in Whitefoooord kids or East Lake kids plus some Toomer kids, with the rest of the Toomer kids joining Mary Lin for a split Mary Lin / Toomer thing.

In other words - welcome, Whitefoord kids, to your new home!

[JBB]

that's some big files...    (72 MB each)

[Cap'n Ken]

Option B would also take a few Inman Middle kids and send them to Coan.

Welcome to East Atlanta, Whitefooord kids!

[JBB]

Neither option lets those Old 4th Ward kids go to Grady. I'm thinking faster than these maps are refreshing.


I thought everyone was gung-ho for a feeder concept that only aggregated and didn't split kids from one school level to the next...  these plans have the middle school kids parting ways for different high schools.  or did I misunderstand the feeder concept?

[Cap'n Ken]

Also looks like King Middle survives in both scenarios despite both scenarios having no kids to its east attending school there.

Branding!

[Cap'n Ken]

Neither option lets those Old 4th Ward kids go to Grady.


I thought everyone was gung-ho for a feeder concept that only aggregated and didn't split kids from one school level to the next...  these plans have the middle school kids parting ways for different high schools.  or did I misunderstand the feeder concept?

Am I seeing it wrong or do both options put O4W in Grady and actually expand the Grady zone south to North Grant Park / Cabbagetown?

But as I read that - going slowly between pages of the giant maps - it does split King Middle into Grady and Jackson.

[JBB]

Neither option lets those Old 4th Ward kids go to Grady.

Am I seeing it wrong or do both options put O4W in Grady and actually expand the Grady zone south to North Grant Park / Cabbagetown?

yeah... I should have said "Inman" instead of Grady... it's Miller Time^TM

[Cap'n Ken]

So looks like the real good piss-fight will be between the Mary Lin parents, who I assume don't want to expand their zone and have their kids split time between Lin and Toomer (preferred), and the Toomer (preferred) parents, who probably would think it's a swell idea to hook themselves into Lin / Inman / Grady instead of welcoming in East Lake kids and being in the Coan / Jackson cluster.

In other words, welcome to East Atlanta, Whitefoooord kids!

And congratulations to the homeowners of North Grant Park for the increase in your property values. Grady zone, bitches!!!

[The Lord of the Jungle]

O4W is PISSED about being shunted out of Inman, esp. in the Option B scenario that ships kids from immediately adjacent to Coan all the way across to Inman.  Very little actual relief in that scenario for Inman.

Several of the stated priorities were pretty well mishandled, esp. the notion of cohesive clusters.  I know GP is actually cheesed off as well.  They wanted to all go to Jackson (sounds crazy, I know), and now they're actually being peeled off to three different high schools (in part because I think the demogs used 20 as a boundary, and didn't recognize that Memorial is GP's formal edge).

The tough part of the Grady issue is that the high school is not the problem, it's Inman middle that's the choke point.  I'd be tempted to suggest that Hope/Hill go K-8, so they'd relieve crowding at Inman, but still be zoned for Grady.  That'd also insure that the Inman Park folks (currently at MLES) wouldn't have to go over to HH with all those people who don't care about education.  SPARK and MES are pretty happy, according to some of the message boards, and I don't blame 'em.  Their campaign appears to have paid off.

[Cap'n Ken]

O4W is PISSED about being shunted out of Inman, esp. in the Option B scenario that ships kids from immediately adjacent to Coan all the way across to Inman.  Very little actual relief in that scenario for Inman.

Several of the stated priorities were pretty well mishandled, esp. the notion of cohesive clusters.  I know GP is actually cheesed off as well.  They wanted to all go to Jackson (sounds crazy, I know), and now they're actually being peeled off to three different high schools (in part because I think the demogs used 20 as a boundary, and didn't recognize that Memorial is GP's formal edge).

The tough part of the Grady issue is that the high school is not the problem, it's Inman middle that's the choke point.  I'd be tempted to suggest that Hope/Hill go K-8, so they'd relieve crowding at Inman, but still be zoned for Grady.  That'd also insure that the Inman Park folks (currently at MLES) wouldn't have to go over to HH with all those people who don't care about education.  SPARK and MES are pretty happy, according to some of the message boards, and I don't blame 'em.  Their campaign appears to have paid off.

All that and no thoughts on our own district? Or is that coming? I'm interested to hear the thoughts of folks like yourself.

Also, I keep seeing people on the Facebooks saying things like "this is only the demographer's maps - APS will draw their own", but doesn't the stated timeline of a decision come April or May pretty much mean APS will decide from what's in front of them by way of these studies/maps rather than go off the board and come up with some other plans?