Nearly 500 new students join District 308, District Attempts to Keep Classroom Sizes Balanced
The AYP scores and resulting failure of six schools in the district open up Choice options as well.
When the Fiscal Year 2013 budget was announced with a $5.5 million deficit at the August 13 Oswego District 308 Board of Education meeting, that number was riding on the assumption that there were 17,561 students enrolled in District 308. Superintendent Matthew Wendt announced at the August 27 board meeting that number has now inflated to 17,739 students and that nearly 500 new students have joined the district. District 308 is expecting to see enrollments through August and even potentially past Labor Day. With the increase in students, the district is working to keep classrooms balanced. Wendt said there are highs and lows in class sizes across the district, but in terms of core classes at the junior high level they are trying to keep …
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Leland H. Hoffer
10:19 pm on Saturday, September 1, 2012
There certainly was misunderstanding because I have never said that a feeder system would not work. The system has not operated as it should because of lack of planing for location of schools and poor decisions on drawing proper boundaries starting with the elementary schools. Recent school locations have been a result of what was left available instead of planned in cocept plans. Bouindaries …   more ›