The Brandywine, Christina, Colonial and Red Clay school districts must submit plans to change their school assignment patterns by November 2001. They will have 18 months to implement them after they receive special transportation money from the General Assembly based on those plans. Administrators will have to consider whether to build new schools as student populations shift. Brandywine already has begun considering which administrators, educators, parents and residents should sit on its committee to make its neighborhood school decisions. The Citizens Advisory Committee's Freedman said many parents who are used to their schools or who bought their homes because of the schools their children would be assigned to may balk.
Nobody wants change.
There are very few in-betweens. Tim Hamlett say they may have never met if it hadn't been for busing, and may never have had the chance to become close to kids of other races. They said the district is so compact that busing does not affect students as much as in other districts. No new schools would be needed to comply with the law. Some renovations may be needed at schools where grade configurations will change.