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Old 05-13-2015, 11:30 AM
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Once HISD configures the West U zone so schools aren't so overcrowded, it should adjust the Pershing MS zone so several of the low income apartments on the southern end are rezoned to Dowling and/or Cullen. That way Pershing won't be so overcrowded.

If need be HISD should open a new middle school in the Hiram Clarke area for relief purposes.
Don't they already have a charter down there? I think that has drained some students from Dowling.
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Old 05-13-2015, 09:10 PM
 
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Don't they already have a charter down there? I think that has drained some students from Dowling.
An HISD-affiliated charter or a state charter?

They did open Billy Regan K-8, but they actually had to reduce its attendance zone because there were so many students there. I think they should open another middle school in Hiram Clarke and turn Billy Regan into a K-5. Then some of the apartments south of 610 and east of Stella Link can be rezoned from Pershing to Dowling or a new middle school.

They could also expand the zone of Attucks Middle School in Sunnyside so it covers some territory formerly zoned to Dowling Middle School.
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Old 05-14-2015, 09:25 AM
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An HISD-affiliated charter or a state charter?

They did open Billy Regan K-8, but they actually had to reduce its attendance zone because there were so many students there. I think they should open another middle school in Hiram Clarke and turn Billy Regan into a K-5. Then some of the apartments south of 610 and east of Stella Link can be rezoned from Pershing to Dowling or a new middle school.

They could also expand the zone of Attucks Middle School in Sunnyside so it covers some territory formerly zoned to Dowling Middle School.
Billy Regan is what I was thinking of.

I think it got all those students trying to escape Dowling.
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Old 05-15-2015, 02:41 AM
 
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Billy Regan is what I was thinking of.

I think it got all those students trying to escape Dowling.
Regan is a regular HISD school with an attendance boundary. See http://www.houstonisd.org/site/handl...%202014-15.pdf
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Old 05-15-2015, 04:54 PM
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Regan is a regular HISD school with an attendance boundary. See http://www.houstonisd.org/site/handl...%202014-15.pdf
The neighborhood was trying to escape Dowling and got the K-8 instead of just an elementary school.
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Old 05-16-2015, 05:42 AM
 
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Does anyone know the outcome of this meeting? I've done some searching on-line, but I can't find the results of the vote. (The minutes for that meeting aren't posted yet.)
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Old 05-17-2015, 08:36 AM
 
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I think they kicked the can down the road. Apparently the only zones that were changed were those around Barbara Bush Elementary on the West Side. The community favored those changes. The West U Elementary/Rice School and Sinclair/Love Elementary changes in the Heights/Garden Oaks area drew heated community opposition.
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Old 05-17-2015, 08:44 AM
 
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I think they kicked the can down the road. Apparently the only zones that were changed were those around Barbara Bush Elementary on the West Side. The community favored those changes. The West U Elementary/Rice School and Sinclair/Love Elementary changes in the Heights/Garden Oaks area drew heated community opposition.
Yay! Thanks for the update.
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Old 06-17-2015, 12:41 PM
 
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Apparently this is not a dead issue after all. Despite having a huge surge of parent opposition, and having the board vote down the measure 8-1 in May, Roberts and West U (and maybe Twain and/or Poe) received a memo last week that they need to cut their waivers in half, and there are now wait lists for all of the grades at those schools, and new students can't be enrolled! What the heck? What is the point of the board voting against this, if HISD is going to put this into effect anyway?

This is so frustrating and hard!
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Old 06-17-2015, 07:08 PM
 
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This is on the school web site. http://www.houstonisd.org/cms/lib2/T...%20English.pdf
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