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Brandywine community urges more data, raises equity and special-education concerns; board tables a planning item
Summary
Fifty-one residents spoke during public comment, many demanding detailed AIR fiscal estimates, model-level impacts and safeguards for students with disabilities; the board moved to table a separate district success planning item and adjourned.
Dozens of parents, teachers and advocates used the meeting’s public-comment period to press the Redding Consortium and the school board for more data and clearer protections for vulnerable students before any redistricting decision.
Speakers repeatedly asked for plan-level fiscal estimates and timeline details. "It seems premature to have the vote before we have enough of the details to understand the differences in the plans," said Kendra Johnson, who identified herself as a parent in the district. Multiple commenters asked whether the AIR report, which presenters said had been contracted, would…
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