This evening, from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. at the John Stanford Center, SPS staff will be presenting recommendations to the School Board on the Growth Boundaries process. This meeting is open to the public, though the public will not have a chance to comment during the session itself. Here is a link to the meeting agenda in PDF.
How does this process affect JAMS? Depending on what SPS staff are hoping to do with programs such as APP (it is possible that NE middle school APP will be assigned to JAMS), and where it decides to place the Jane Addams K-8 (E-STEM) option school until its new building is ready for occupancy, the attendance boundaries for the Jane Addams Middle School may need to be adjusted because the building can only hold so many kids. A smaller JAMS may translate to an insufficient budget for comprehensive programming. Another possibility is that JAMS may be located at an interim site until the E-STEM K-8 program has vacated the Jane Addams building.
We will post links to the Growth Boundaries Map and supporting documents, as soon as they become available. Information is also available on the SPS Growth Boundaries webpage (http://bit.ly/GrowthBoundaries).
The community meeting to discuss these Growth Boundaries recommendations will be held at Nathan Hale High School Commons, September 24 from 6:30-8:00 PM. Please join us in supporting JAMS at this meeting!
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