HCPSS MPIA Request #2020-234

Requested Information
All documents and information, including, but not limited to, written testimony, communications, discussions, hearings, and transcripts regarding the Howard County Board of Education's Attendance Area Adjustment Plan for the 2020-2021 school year, as the plan pertains to polygons 2174, 2135, 53, 2053, 1066, and 66.
Date Received
Status
Complete
Response Notes

Responsive to this request, the HCPSS website regarding the Attendance Area Adjustment has an overview of the process as well as links to documents used throughout: https://www.hcpss.org/school-planning/boundary-review/

Additionally, all public testimony/comments received by the Board of Education during the current Boundary Review Process are being posted on the Board Docs website and can found here: http://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/hcpssmd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BFEKJH521A63, as well as by meeting date for those submitted during a public hearing:

Video of each public hearing can also be found by date on the Board Doc website: https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/hcpssmd/Board.nsf/Public (pick the Meetings drop-down in the upper right corner, expand 2019 and click on the dates above, should be a Swagit Video of each).

Work sessions of the Board, where they discussed the plan and made related decisions, can also be found on the above website under:

  • October 17, 2019 – Attendance Area Adjustment Work Session I
  • October 28, 2019 – Attendance Area Adjustment Work Session II
  • October 30, 2019 – Attendance Area Adjustment Work Session III
  • November 5, 2019 –  Attendance Area Adjustment Work Session IV
  • November 7, 2019 – Attendance Area Adjustment Work Session V
  • November 12, 2019 – Attendance Area Adjustment Work Session VI
  • November 13, 2019 – Attendance Area Adjustment Work Session VII
  • November 14, 2019 – Attendance Area Adjustment Work Session VIII
  • November 18, 2019 – Attendance Area Adjustment Work Session IX
  • November 21, 2019 – Final votes

No clarification received within 30 days to narrow/continue response.

*Some request language is summarized to include the requester's specific document requests and legally protected information (such as personally identifiable information of a student) or personal, defamatory and malicious content removed at the discretion of the school system.

**Responses containing legally protected information available only to the person of interest are omitted from the above report.

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