Education
BY MICHAEL CROUCHLEY & SAM PONTIUS
District seeking feedback on facility planning Plano ISD is hosting a series of community meetings as the district looks at long-range facility planning options, which could include schools. What you need to know District officials appointed a long-range facility planning advisory committee in September that will make recommendations on “building and property efficiencies.” The committee, comprised of current or recent PISD parents began meeting in October. The community is invited to provide feedback at meetings on Dec. 11, Jan. 11, Feb. 10, March 6 and April 9. Digging deeper As a result of declining enrollment numbers, PISD is looking to “rightsize” school sites,
Officials want TEA ‘held accountable’ Following a district court ruling that blocked the Texas Education Agency from issuing new accountability ratings to public schools, Plano ISD officials expect the agency “to be held accountable to the law,” a district spokesperson said in an email response. The gist PISD is one of more than 100 school districts in Texas that is suing the TEA over its new A-F accountability rating system. “The court recognized that the Legislature expects for families, schools and educators to know the rules by which schools will be graded in advance, rather than applying new rules retroactively as the TEA has attempted to do for the 2022-2023 school year,” the statement said.
The decline Enrollment rates declined by nearly 8% in Plano ISD from the 2018-19 school year to 2022-23.
Enrollment
53,057 52,692
2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2022-23 2021-22
49,400 50,154 48,921
SOURCE: TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY/COMMUNITY IMPACT
according to the district’s website. Rightsizing may include closing school buildings or adjusting attendance boundaries within the feeder pattern. PISD’s enrollment has steadily declined since peaking at 55,700 students in 2012. The district’s enrollment for the 2023-24 school year is 47,800 students.
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