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Caution: School zoning ahead
Short-term plan will address LCES crowding, but more remapping ahead for Bulloch County schools
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Redrawing attendance zones is a task Bulloch County Schools officials are approaching cautiously but say can no longer be delayed for some schools. The zones decide which schools students attend, or at least where a free school bus ride will take them. “When addressing something as potentially massive as zoning, we need to define the problem or issue which we are trying to resolve,” Paul Webb, the school system’s chief operations officer, said in beginning his Feb. 12 presentation to the Board of Education.The board, he said, needs to decide whether zoning will solely address “school capacity” by balancing how completely the various schools are filled with students, or whether other concerns need to be addressed.One of those concerns is travel distance, or as Webb explained it, “How far from a school is too far for a student to travel?”Bulloch County’s tradition of community schools suggests limits on how far parents or buses should have to transport students, Superintendent Charles Wilson said.
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