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Shown with part of the exhibit and the blue ribbon
FAIR WINNERS - Bethware Fair won first place with its education booth at the Cleveland County Fair.
are, right to left, Judy Bowen, Richa Clark, Susan
Elmore, Martha Sloan and Sherry Bingham, who planned and coordinated the booth.
Much Interest In Assignment Plan
Not surprisingly, we are currently seeing a great
deal of interest in the development of our student as-
signment plan for K-5 children. This is appropriate,
and our Board of Education wants us to do everything
possible to keep the community informed as this pro-
cess develops.
In today's column I want to share with you informa-
tion as to how the assignment plan is being developed.
A more detailed presentation reviewing this process
will be presented at public meetings to be held in
BOB McRAE
Superintendent
Kings Mountain Schools
November at each of our five elementary schools. The
schedule for those meetings, all of which will begin at
7 p.m., is as follows: Thurs., Nov. 8 - East Elementary
School, Grover Elementary School; Mon., Nov. 19 -
North Elementary School, West Elementary School;
Tues., Nov. 20, Bethware Elementary School. Again,
these meetings will be to describe the process being
used to create the plan. There will not be at that time
any draft of the plan itself, however, there will be op-
portunities for parents to see and respond to the actual
proposal for assignments at a later date.
We have contracted with YSACC, Inc. of Raleigh to
help us develop the plan. They specialize in the appli-
cation of objective methods for development of school
attendance zones. They have been in operation for a
number of years and have worked with several other
school systems including Johnston County and Wilson
County. The Lexington City School System is a sys-
tem with which YSACC has recently worked which is
similar in size and racial composition to us.
YSACC used computer procedures to develop
school attendance zones which minimize student miles
on buses within school size and racial balance con-
straints. Essentially the process is as follows:
1) - The school system is divided into sub areas
(called nodes) for the purpose of defining the distribu-
tion of students within the system. The nodes may
vary in size depending on how heavily populated they
are. All children in a certain node will be assigned to
the same school. In our system 113 nodes have been
established by YSAAC.
2) - The number of students within each grade level
and race of these students is determined for each node.
3) - Maximum and minimum capacities for each
school are determined by the system.
4) - Limits are established by the system for the
racial ratio range. In other words, if the system's mi-
nority average is 26 percent and the range is plus or
minus 5 percent, no school could have below 21 per-
cent minority students or above 31 percent minority
students.
5) - Computer software is then used to develop stu-
dent assignment plans which minimize the distance
which students must travel.
6) - The Board of Education then reviews the first
draft of the student assignment plan. Additional con-
siderations which lead to the "humanization" of the fi-
nal plan will be developed, and parents will be notified
of their children's schools for the next year. This
should take place in the spring. After that the Board
will consider any transfer requests in keep with its re-
vised transfer policy which is currently being devel-
oped.
The Board of Education is committed to develop a
student assignment plan which is objective, based on
some logical, fairly assigned principle. In this case the
overriding philosophy is to, within appropriate racial
percentages, have students attend school as close to
their home as possible. I think you would be interested
to know that the gentlemen who formed YSACC, Inc.
did so as a result of their involvement as parents in a
student reassignment plan. They saw the need for the
changes which would affect their own children but felt
there was a much more objective way to develop the
plan than the one being used. Since that time they have
helped many systems develop fair, objective plans
when changes in student assignment were necessary.
As this process develops we will try to keep you
well informed. If, during that time, you feel the need
for information beyond what we have provided, please
feel free to contact our office. Let's all work together
to make these changes as smoothly as possible.
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vices were held for both the KM
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was guest speaker.
KMMS also held three pep ral-
lies this week to boost school spir-
it.The Patriot cheerleaders Kim
Rhodes, Amber Jordan, Natalie
Townsend, Brandy Eudy, Erin
Lovelace, Kenya Howze, Annie
Robbins, Jaime Mullinax, Kristie
Small, Haley Bridges, and Amanda
Keen, along with coach Beth
Sellers, led the 6th grade, 7th grade
and 8th grade through the routines.
Congratulations to each grade lev-
el team that showed the school
spirit and won the right to the
"Spirit Stick"for their team until
next pep rally. Good luck to all the
teams next time.
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Fri., Oct. 19 from 1-2:30 p.m. at
the Kings Mountain Baptist
Association office in Shelby.
For more information call Patti
Norman, director, at 734-5660.
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