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Subject:
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Policy JC/JCD--Student Placement |
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ACPS 2025 Strategic Plan Goal:
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Goal 5: Family and Community Engagement ACPS will ensure that all families and community members feel welcomed, respected, and valued.
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Agenda Item Summary:
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Based on a passed Board motion, staff have revised the drafts of Policy JC/JCD – Student Placements, JC/JCD-R Student Placements Regulations, and JC/JCD-RD Student Placement Regulations Implementation Schedule. The Board also requested to receive additional information about the staff rationale for recommending phasing out programmatic transfers into the K-8 programs. |
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Background:
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At the July 28, 2022 the Board passed two motions to alter the proposed policy revisions:
1. Adding that ACPS provides “limited” programmatic transfer options
2. Continue the existing programmatic transfer options to the K-8 programs.
versions presented on July 28, 2022.
Staff noted during the presentation that the phasing out of programmatic transfers into the K-8 programs was designed to address capacity issues at the comprehensive meeting schools, while also growing enrollment at the K-8 schools. Now that the schools are at capacity this temporary provision is no longer necessary. The Board asked staff to provide data that the K-8 programs are at capacity and that prior programmatic transfers into the K-8 programs are causing students who reside in the K-8 program’s attendance zone to be capacity reassigned to a comprehensive middle school.
The motions resulted in changes from the proposed |
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Recommendation
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The Superintendent recommends that the School Board review the updated policies to confirm that the approved motions were correctly incorporated. |
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Approvals:
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Recommended By: |
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Signed By: |
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Dr. Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr. - Superintendent |
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