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School committee reviews redistricting maps, highlights modular classrooms as key to short-term ECP capacity
Summary
Committee members and the advisory group reviewed multiple draft maps from Sanborn Consultants. Administrators said modular classrooms would provide flexibility for the Early Childhood Program (ECP) while the district finalizes longer-term building plans; advisory members preferred maps that preserved program stability and demographic equity.
The Woburn School Committee reviewed several draft redistricting maps on March 5 and heard from its advisory committee that the district’s preferred near-term strategy is to pair a longer-term redistricting plan with modular classrooms to relieve space pressures for the Early Childhood Program (ECP).
Superintendent Matthew Crowley and resource-subcommittee members described three map options developed with consultant Sanborn: each option reflects a different placement for a program identified in the slides as RISE 2 (a specialized program), which shaped the layout of component areas on the maps.
Crowley said the district asked Sanborn for maps that would (a) reflect an "end-state" configuration if modular classrooms were available and (b) include components that could be shifted in a…
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