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Board outlines parent selection and equity priorities for enrollment‑boundary committees
Summary
Trustees heard that 24 elementary and 19 secondary parents applied to attendance/enrollment-area committees; officials plan to select seven parents with geographic representation plus two teachers, and trustees urged using GIS and free/reduced-lunch data to assess socioeconomic equity and feeder patterns.
AJ Watson and Sue Pedet updated the board on organizing attendance and enrollment-area committees. They reported 24 elementary and 19 secondary parents signaled interest and said the plan is to select seven parents (five geographically distributed plus two randomly selected alternates) and add two teacher representatives so staff perspectives are included without reducing parent representation.
Trustees emphasized the committee should use GIS population projections and free/reduced-price-lunch household data to evaluate socioeconomic equity and not to rely solely on emotional appeals. Board members also stressed the importance of considering feeder‑school relationships so boundaries at elementary and middle levels remain coordinated.
Administration described a selection workflow: district outreach through Infinite Campus, principal-level notification and a Google-form application, followed by an administrative compilation for board review. Trustees agreed to streamline the initial administrative steps: keep the application so the board can read applicants' backgrounds, but remove an early spreadsheet-gathering step to shorten the timeline. The committees are expected to meet frequently over several weeks; administrators plan additional community outreach, draft guiding principles and a public communications piece explaining the purpose of the boundary review.
