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Updated: Jun 19th, 2005 - 20:05:13 |
Seminole County Schools built a new high school, Hagerty High in Oviedo, to be opened in the fall of 2006. To accommodate enrollment for the new school, a rezoning process was initiated in early summer of 2005, to develop new attendance zones for high schools in Seminole County. The basics of the rezoning process are contained in School Board policy.
Throughout the summer, in accordance with School Board rezoning policies, parents and others comprising the Core Committee developed plans for rezoning, eventually settling on three plans to be presented through the District Superintendent to the School Board for adoption.
The process worked well, according to plan, until the point of the Superintendent's submission and recommendation of plans to the School Board. Shortly before presenting the plans, the Superintendent ordered his staff to devise two additional plans that did not emanate from the Core Committee process. The Superintendent subsequently recommended one of the new plans for adoption by the School Board, which indicated it would consent to approving the recommended plan.
Parents were stunned and confused, not understanding why the rezoning process, as it had been presented to them, had been abandoned. Their understanding, based on information from the School District, was that the three plans developed by the Core Committee would be presented to the School Board, which would approve one. The parents were blindsided by the introduction of the two new plans.
The parents contend the School Board and School District violated their own policies and procedures by abandoning the Core Committee process, and unilaterally imposing a separate plan completely of their own creation.
The School Board and District contend they were completely within their rights, and that the Core Committee process is strictly an advisory one that is non-binding on the School Board.
Regardless of the legalities, it is clearly apparent that the School Board misled the parents and violated the trust the parents had afforded the School District officials.
Seminole County Watch.com
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