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Red Clay committee stalls plan to create innovation center, seeks more community input on attendance-zone changes
Summary
A Red Clay School District committee did not reach a majority to advance a plan that would create an innovation center and reduce the number of comprehensive high schools; members asked for more stakeholder engagement and student input before bringing recommendations to the full board.
A Red Clay Consolidated School District committee on secondary attendance zones and programming on June 17 failed to reach a majority to advance a proposal that would create an innovation center and reduce the district's comprehensive high schools to two.
The committee chair, Dr. L. Neesmith, said the group discussed options intended to improve equitable access to career and technical education (CTE) and other programs across the district, but committee members asked for additional stakeholder engagement before forwarding a final recommendation to the full board. "We did not get a majority vote for that," Dr. Neesmith said of the innovation-center proposal.
Why it matters: The committee's work could reshape high-school…
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