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K - 8 Proposal
Howe International
Program
Will Expand to K-8
The Schenectady
City School District Board of Education voted Wednesday to move
the Howe International Magnet School to Central Park Middle
School and expand to a K-8 program beginning 2009-2010.
Under this
plan, the current K-6 program currently at the Howe facility
would move to the Central Park building. The sixth and
seventh graders who currently attend Central Park would remain
in the school through eighth grade. Any openings in
the school would be available to other students in the district
through a lottery.
The change will
also affect the feeder school pattern, particularly that of
Woodlawn, Lincoln and Paige, all of which currently feed to
Central Park.
Mont Pleasant
and Oneida will remain middle schools. The Board amended
the original proposal so that Lincoln sixth graders will move on
to Mont Pleasant for seventh and eighth grades and Woodlawn and
Paige students to Oneida. The change was made because most
of the Lincoln students live within walking distance of Mont
Pleasant Middle School.
The Howe
building will be used to expand the early childhood education
program and adult and continuing education fulfilling a goal to
offer these important programs on the north end of the city.
King Magnet
will expand to a pre-K through grade 8 school next year.
Like the Central Park plan, the current sixth and seventh
graders will stay at King through eighth grade. Additional
students, through a lottery, will be eligible to attend King
next year as well. Students who graduated from King to
Central Park will have an opportunity to return to their
elementary school next year.
This plan moves
the district closer to the strategic goal of having all sixth
graders in elementary/K-8 setting and achieves the goal of
offering K-8 schools of choice. The Academy of Culture and
Communication is the only elementary school that will not house
sixth grade next year but may be offered in 2010-2011.
A committee of
teachers, parents and administrators will be formed to talk
about the next steps including a K-8 transition plan and
activities. Look for more information soon.
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