This meeting will be conducted via video-teleconference pursuant to KRS 61.823 and KRS 61.826. The primary location for this meeting and where all members can be seen and heard by the public will be Stewart Auditorium, VanHoose Education Center. Members are permitted to attend in-person or via video-teleconference pursuant to KRS 61.826. Members of the public may attend in-person or watch the live-stream of the meeting via the following link: JCBE MEETING VIDEO.

• 6 1 22 Meeting Notice

Each speaker is allowed three minutes to address the Board. 

At the end of 2–1/2 minutes, a bell will sound once. You will then have 30 seconds to finish your statement.  

At the end of three minutes, the bell will sound twice, indicating that your time is up.

The District student assignment plan needs a comprehensive, coordinated reimagining and restructuring to improve equity, access, and choice for all students, to make it easier for families to understand, to create mechanisms to address school diversity, and to ensure adequate funding aligned with student need. The JCPS student assignment plan has not undergone a comprehensive review with significant changes for almost forty years. The changes made during that period were largely ad hoc in nature and disconnected from the overall purpose of the plan, creating a fragmented system, that is unduly complex, and that exacerbates racial inequities for Black and Brown students.

A cross-divisional leadership team, with invaluable input from the Student Assignment Review Advisory Committee (SARAC), and with significant technical support from nationally recognized experts, has been working over the three years to develop recommendations for a new Plan. Through that process, they conducted a thorough review of the current District student assignment plan and developed recommendations for significant, comprehensive, and coordinated changes for Board consideration. This effort has included an analysis of the implications of the student assignment plan for racial equity in the District and has relied upon input from stakeholders, community members, students, critical friends, and families, throughout the process.

The proposed student assignment plan was developed based on five Guiding Principles: Equity; Access; Ease of Understanding; Diversity; and Choice.

Broadly, there are three main components to the proposal:

• Dual Resides and Feeder Patterns - How students are assigned to schools based on their home address.
• Choice Zone Support Plan - How the District will provide support to high-need schools to ensure all students get the support they need to succeed and thrive.
• Magnet Schools and Programs – How the District will expand choices aligned to student interest and create exciting, engaging learning communities to serve a diverse set of students.

District staff from the Office of School Choice and the Office of the Chief of Staff, with review by the General Counsel, drafted Board policies and administrative procedures aligned with the School Choice Plan proposal to guide implementation and establish accountability mechanisms.  The Board Policy Committee met on May 3, 2022, and May 12, 2022, to review and consider following draft Board policies and administrative procedures:

• Board Policy 9.11 School Choice System
• Related School Choice System Administrative Procedures:
  • 09.11 AP.1 Student Transfers
  • 09.11 AP.2 Assignment of Students - Non-Magnet Schools
  • 09.11 AP.3 Assignment of Students - Magnet Schools, Programs, and Optional Programs
  • 09.11 AP.4 Diversity Categories and Index
• Board Police 08.134 Magnet Education
• Related Magnet Education Administrative Procedures:
  • 08.134 AP.1 Quality Magnet Programming
  • 08.134 AP.2 New Magnet School or Program Design Process
  • 08.134 AP.3 Assignment Processes for Magnet Schools, Programs, and Optional Program

The salary stipend for the Choice Zone is being finalized through the standard negotiation and approval process and will be brought to the Board for action as soon as it has been finalized.

Submitted by: Robert Moore

• School Choice Presentation June 1, 2022
• Draft 08.134 Magnet Education Polices Procedures
• Draft 09.11 School Choice System Policies Procedures
• Reside School Boundary Maps
• Traditional School Boundary Maps
• Org Chart and Job Description Academic Schools
• Org Chart and Job Description Administration
• JCPS School Choice Proposal 6.1.22

Superintendent Martin Pollio recommends the Board of Education accept a report on the JCPS School Choice Plan and act upon JCPS School Choice Plan components as follows–
• receive for first submission and reading Board Policies 09.11 School Choice System and 08.134 Magnet Education;
• receive for review related Administrative Procedures 09.11 AP.1, 09.11 AP.2 09.11 AP.3, 09.11 AP.4, 08.134 AP.1, 08.134 AP.2, and 08.134 AP.3;
• receive final School Choice Plan Proposal document;
• approve elementary, middle, and high school boundary maps;
• approve elementary, middle, and high traditional school boundary maps;
• approve job descriptions and revised organizational charts for the Director of the Choice Zone and for support provided to the Office of School Choice for magnets;
• approve the change of Shelby Traditional Academy's name to Shelby Academy;
• approve the change of J.F. Kennedy Montessori Elementary's name to J.F. Kennedy Elementary; and
• approve the creation of full magnet schools at Hawthorne Elementary, Coleridge-Taylor Elementary, Foster Academy, Western Middle, Shawnee Middle, and Western High School.

Order #2022-97 - Motion Passed:  Superintendent Martin Pollio recommends the Board of Education accept a report on the JCPS School Choice Plan and act upon JCPS School Choice Plan components as follows– • receive for first submission and reading Board Policies 09.11 School Choice System and 08.134 Magnet Education; • receive for review related Administrative Procedures 09.11 AP.1, 09.11 AP.2 09.11 AP.3, 09.11 AP.4, 08.134 AP.1, 08.134 AP.2, and 08.134 AP.3; • receive final School Choice Plan Proposal document; • approve elementary, middle, and high school boundary maps; • approve elementary, middle, and high traditional school boundary maps; • approve job descriptions and revised organizational charts for the Director of the Choice Zone and for support provided to the Office of School Choice for magnets; • approve the change of Shelby Traditional Academy's name to Shelby Academy; • approve the change of J.F. Kennedy Montessori Elementary's name to J.F. Kennedy Elementary; and • approve the creation of full magnet schools at Hawthorne Elementary, Coleridge-Taylor Elementary, Foster Academy, Western Middle, Shawnee Middle, and Western High School. The recommendation passed with a motion by Ms. Diane Porter and a second by Mrs. Linda Duncan.

Order #2022-98 - Motion Passed:  A motion to adjourn the June 1, 2022, Special Meeting at 7:14 p.m. passed with a motion by Mr. James Craig and a second by Ms. Sarah McIntosh.