Review Agenda Item
Meeting Date: 8/19/2022 - 7:00 PM
Category: Policies and Regulations
Type: Info
Subject: Policy JC/JCD--Student Placement
ACPS 2025 Strategic Plan Goal:
Goal 5: Family and Community Engagement
ACPS will ensure that all families and community members feel welcomed, respected, and valued.
Policy: JC / JCD - Student Placement
Funding Source or Fiscal Impact (where applicable)
File Attachment:
220819_Board_Brief_JC_Revisions.pdf
220819_JC_JCD_Student_Placement.approved.bundle.pdf
Agenda Item Summary: 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.
Background: 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
Recommendation: The Superintendent recommends that the School Board review the updated policies to confirm that the approved motions were correctly incorporated.
Approvals:
Recommended By:
Signed By:
Dr. Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr. - Superintendent