WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) — Wausau School District officials may act on a proposal to adjust elementary school boundaries during a special meeting Thursday night.
School district residents get to speak out about a district study designed to more evenly distribute students among the Wausau elementary schools.
The board heard from some parents Monday during a Committee of the Whole meeting, and President Lance Trollop expects more families will step forward tonight.
Trollop says they had a Committee of the Whole meeting Monday to discuss it and hear from the public. They continued to study the proposal and consider the things discussed Monday. “We discussed some of the things we liked and didn’t like, and some of the concerns we had, and now we’ll be getting back to it again on Thursday, probably again looking at that proposal that came to us probably with some other options to address some of the concerns we discussed on Monday night.”
Trollop says the Boundary Study Committee also tried to make the elementary boundaries make more sense, so that students living close to one school were not attending classes in another. “Over time, some sort of strange boundaries developed. We have places where a student might be living quite close to Grant School, but going to a different school. A student might be living right next to Franklin, but attending Riverview because of the way the boundaries are drawn, so that was also something the boundary team tried to correct.”
Some parents support the changes, and others do not. There are also many people that have questions about the plan. Trollop anticipates the board will act on the boundary changes tonight during the special meeting at Horace Mann Middle School.
The district does have a policy for families to apply for transfer to other elementary schools in the district, but there are a number of factors that determine if the transfer is granted.
The proposed boundary changes do not affect the two high schools, which also have a population difference of 317 students.
The meeting starts at 5 o’clock and will end by 8 o’clock in the auditorium.
(You can listen to our interview with School Board President Lance Trollop on our website, here.)
