Thursday, March 25, 1999
Lakota has 2 redistricting meetings
BY SUE KIESEWETTER
Enquirer Contributor
UNION TOWNSHIP — Public hearings on a controversial school redistricting plan will give parents another chance to “vent” — and Lakota administrators say they are eager to listen.
Superintendent Kathleen Klink, board members and administrators will meet with parents at Freedom Elementary School at 7:30 p.m. April 5. A similar meeting will be at Cherokee Elementary School at 7:30 p.m. April 6.
“I'm hopeful at these two meetings we'll go through the plan and listen to what the concerns are,” Mrs. Klink said. “We need to be there to listen and understand.”
Under the proposal, children who live in the Countryside Estates, Elk Run, Williamsburg, Cherokee Estates and Fox Chapel subdivisions would move from Cherokee to Liberty elementary school in August to ease crowding at Cherokee.
Students living along Gano Road would switch from Union to Adena Elementary School. Children who live in the Northpointe Town Homes and Meadow Ridge subdivisions would move from Freedom to Adena to ease crowding at Freedom.
The school board post poned its decision on the redistricting until April 12 at the request of more than 100 angry parents who came to Monday's school board meeting. Many said they had only recently heard of the plan.
“If this had not been on the news, it would have slid right through without us knowing about it,” said parent Michelle Higgins, who lives in Northpointe. “At least they're making efforts to talk to us.”
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