RUSTON, La. — The Lincoln Parish School board will take up a vote today on the new proposed zones and reconfiguration of the elementary schools in the Ruston school district as part of its November agenda.
For a detailed look at the plan, click here for a previous story reported by the Lincoln Parish Journal.
The proposed plan will be to reconfigure Hillcrest, Ruston Elementary, Cypress Springs, and Glen View into PreK – 5th grade neighborhood schools and bring the school board office to the current LPEC school building.
“Since the meeting in October, when HGA introduced the plan to reconfigure the schools, board members have been listening to the public on their thoughts,” Lincoln Parish School Board President said. “I personally had a few emails, calls and texts about it. And of course, we were able to get a pretty good amount of responses from the survey. I will say most of them have been positive, with others having questions and concerns. Most of the concerns that I heard revolved around the closure of preschool and shifting them to the four school locations.
“While we know that there will be many details that need to be worked out, we believe that the overall benefit of making this change will be worth the effort. And that’s one of the reasons most board members wanted to go ahead and introduce this item in November is to give the system, if the plan passes, an extra month to start the planning.”
The meeting will be held today at I.A. Lewis at 12 p.m. There will be a public comment portion allotted prior to the board members taking the vote.
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