Possible School Reconfiguration
4-20-05 To provide the optimum utilization for existing classrooms, we propose moving children instead of classrooms.
Reconfigure Vasquez from a four year, grades 9 through 12, configuration to a three year grades 10 through 12 configuration.
Reconfigure High Desert from its existing four year to a three year grades 7 through 9.
Re-open Acton School as a three year, grades 4 through 6.
Convert Meadowlark from the 6 year, K through 5 configuration, to a four year grades K through 3 configuration.
Advantages:
Saves moving 2 modulars to Meadowlark.
Provides additional classroom space at Meadowlark for CSR grade 3 and full time CSR kindergarten.
Provides space for expansion and added enrollment at all schools except High Desert.
Eliminates moving modulars to Vasquez, which under the current plan forces you into a triple move, the second to a temporary spot at Vasquez purported to be the playing fields, and then a move back to probably the Acton School.
Provides space at Vasquez to eliminate the floating teachers.
Provides space for a library at Vasquez as required by the accreditation report.
Lowers bathroom overcrowding at Vasquez by reducing the enrollment by 25%.
Disadvantages:
Would require hiring an administrator, which could be a principal and part-time teacher, at a higher salary than a straight teacher, at the Acton School.
The current 8th grade at High Desert could perceive they were being held back a year.
There will be cost in moving some teachers from Vasquez to High Desert and a few teachers from Meadowlark and High Desert to the Acton School.
This by no means is an exhaustive list and I solicit both added advantages and disadvantages for this proposal.