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� <br />r"�� <br />PREFACE <br />At its regular meeting of September 9, 1985, the School Board of District #621 <br />directed the formation of a task force for the purpose of studying District <br />enrollment and faciiity usage problems. Those problems centered around the <br />student population imbalances in the District and addressed several major <br />issues, including: <br />� ��� __ . <br />,''�,../ <br />Northeast Student Population Problem <br />Population Trends <br />Citizen Expectations <br />Community Education <br />Cost Effectiveness <br />Surplus Space <br />Building Capacities <br />Staffing Ratio <br />Neighborhood Schools Concept <br />Transportation <br />Grade ')rganization <br />Long-Range Capital Outlay <br />Kindergarten Centers <br />Two High Schools of Equal Size <br />Feeder 5ystem, K-12 <br />Facilities for 5pecial Education Students <br />As a result of `�he School Board directive, the Long-Range Facilities Usage <br />Task Force was convened on November 7, 1985. The unusually large (36) Task <br />Force membership was selected from a broad base of schaol and cormnunity <br />representation. It was intended that input be provided from as diversified <br />a constituency as workable within the parameters of the charge. <br />From the beginning it was agreed that the Task Force would focus its efforts <br />on student-centered needs, looking back only to learn and looking ahead to <br />provide for improvement, realizing that we cannot change the past and can <br />only'provide for adaptation to the future. <br />As a result of initial brainstorming sessions the Task Force was divided <br />into four sub-r,ommittees: <br />1. Additional Space Availability <br />2. Alternative Concepts <br />3. Boundary Co�siderations <br />4. Grade Re-Organization <br />After a brief initial meeting the Boundary Considerations and Grade Re-Organiza- <br />tion groups merged into one sub-cortrtnittee. <br />-1- <br />