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Regulation Title: Student Attendance Boundaries
Regulation Code: JC-R
Lead Department: School Community Services

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Superintendent's Committee: The Superintendent will establish a committee of staff and community members to review options and make recommendations [to the Superintendent] for attendance boundary changes.

Criteria for selecting committee members
Committee members should meet one or more of the following criteria:

  1. Be a neighborhood parent
  2. Represent a reasonable mix of the diversity and ethnicity of the affected
    community
  3. Be a staff member of one of the affected elementary schools
  4. Be an interested member of the community

Roles and Responsibilities of the Committee Members

  1. Attend committee meetings, expected to meet at least bi-monthly for approximately five to six months.
  2. Develop a timeline for completing the committee's responsibilities
  3. Review data at affected schools
    1. current and projected student enrollment
    2. school building capacities
    3. student transportation
    4. feeder patterns to middle schools
    5. current and planned instructional programs
    6. natural and legal parameters such as
      • neighborhood boundaries
      • natural boundaries
      • current and future subdivision growth
      • ethnic mix
  4. Create options and recommendations that equitably address enrollment growth
    1. Short term
      • Select options for disbursing portables at affected sites
      • Select options for re-distributing students at alternate TUSD sites
      • Other options
    2. Long term
      • Select options for new school site
      • Select options for boundary changes
      • Other options
  5. Make recommendations of selected options to the Superintendent

Public Meetings
The Committee will hold at least two public meetings at which they will discuss attendance boundary changes and hear public comments. These meetings along with maps of the proposed attendance boundary areas will be publicized on the district website as well as through press releases and school communications.

Reviewed: January 29, 2008

LEGAL REF.: A.R.S. §15-341, 20 U.S.C. 9532 No Child Left Behind; 42 U.S.C. 11301, McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 2001

CROSS REF: JFBA - Unsafe School Choice

Replaces TUSD Policy# 5080 (repealed 08/28/07)