At its September Pre-Board meeting, the Fulton County Board of Education discussed criteria for redrawing school lines and the process of gathering parent and community input. Under discussion are the secondary criteria to be used when nearness to the school does not provide a clear choice. The School Board agreed to take the discussion of secondary criteria to their communities during the next month. The School Board wants to know how important the following criteria should be when the Board makes redistricting decisions. Special programs include services in addition to regular classroom instruction.
Mobility refers to the number of students who enroll and withdraw during the year.
Traffic patterns include how long it takes to travel to and from school safely. Previous redistricting refers to which neighborhoods have been moved from one school to another in the past. In the past, parent committees recommended attendance zone lines to the School Board. That process took months of study and depended on many volunteer hours. Through the use of computer technology, proposed school lines can be drawn significantly faster.