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Parents and students urge McKinney ISD trustees to pause three elementary closures, cite data errors
Summary
Dozens of parents, students and other stakeholders told the McKinney ISD Board of Trustees they believe the district used 'design capacity' instead of 'functional capacity' to justify closing three elementary schools and urged trustees to pause implementation while data are reviewed.
Dozens of parents, students and community members pressed the McKinney Independent School District Board of Trustees on Nov. 17 to pause a plan to close three elementary schools, arguing the district’s analysis used the wrong capacity metric and misrepresented campus utilization.
At the public-comment portion of the meeting, fourth-grader Sydney Renee Scott of Wilford Elementary asked simply, “Why Wilford has to close,” and parents followed with detailed objections. Parent speakers said the district presented design-capacity figures (a building’s theoretical number of rooms) rather than functional-capacity figures (which account for special-education rooms, intervention spaces and pre-K) when ranking candidates for closure. “When you redo the math, Edens has 385 students … functional capacity is 474 at Edens, making us 80%,” said Tamara McClendon, who urged trustees to place a…
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