The Greater Starkville Development Partnership is proud to partner with Parents for Public School of Starkville to host a Twitter Town Hall meeting on Wednesday, November 6, from 7 until 8 pm to provide an opportunity for a question and answer session regarding consolidation -- particularly the proposed plan released by the Commission on Starkville Consolidated School District Structure (shown below.) The Partnership recognizes that a high quality public school system is an essential part of Starkville's quality of life and economic development efforts. We urge all our members and community stakeholders to become informed about this important process to expand the Starkville School District.
PPS will facilitate Wednesday's discussion from their twitter account (http://twitter.com/ppsstarkville) using the hashtag #StkCSD. In addition to GSDP and PPS leaders, Commission members Rex Buffington and Lewis Holloway, Starkville School District Superintendent, have confirmed that they will be available to respond to questions. The live chat is an opportunity to share information and discuss consolidation prior to the public hearing scheduled for Thursday, November 7, at the Greensboro Center at 6 pm. While a public hearing allows individuals to provide input, it typically does not allow for a dialogue exchange, which is why PPS Starkville and GSDP wanted to offer another forum.
“The Commission's work has been extensive over the past few months, and we recognize that parents might not have been able to follow every meeting,” PPS Starkville President Michelle Jones said. “With that in mind, PPS Starkville felt that it was important for there to be a forum that would allow for questions and answers so that parents and other stakeholders could develop informed opinions on the proposed plan.”
Members of PPS Starkville, GSDP, Starkville School District, and the Commission on Starkville Consolidated School Structure will be available during the live chat to answer questions about consolidation and the proposed plan. During the hour, PPS Starkville and GSDP will facilitate conversation about the merits of the proposed consolidation plan as well as invite feedback on the points of the plan. This Twitter chat is also an opportunity for stakeholders to ask questions about the work of the Commission, including how the Commission decided on their recommendations for the consolidation plan.
“It is our hope that this Q and A discussion offers an informative session so that our stakeholders can be better informed about consolidation and better prepared to provide input to the Commission members during the public hearing on Thursday,” Jones said.
PPS Starkville and GSDP invite you to join us in this effort to engage our community and our state to help create the best plan for consolidation that does the most to impact the quality and delivery of education in every classroom for every child.
Reminder: Public Hearing set for Thursday, November 7
6:00pm
Greensboro Center
PROPOSED PLAN FOR THE CONSOLIDATION OF
STARKVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THE
OKTIBBEHA COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT
(This Proposed Plan is for discussion purposes only and is subject to change.)
1. All public school students who reside in Oktibbeha County will be educated by the Starkville Consolidated School District.
Elementary Schools
2. East Oktibbeha Elementary School will remain a Pre-K through Grade 6 elementary school at the same location in the Starkville Consolidated School District. The school zone for East Oktibbeha Elementary School will remain the same.
3. West Oktibbeha Elementary School will remain Pre-K through Grade 6 elementary school at the same location in the Starkville Consolidated School District. The school zone for West Oktibbeha Elementary School will remain the same.
4. As a result of East Oktibbeha Elementary School and West Oktibbeha Elementary School remaining Pre-K through Grade 6 schools at the same
locations, the following elementary schools in Starkville will remain at the same location and serve the same grades in the consolidated school district:
· Sudduth Elementary (Grades K-2);
· Ward-Stewart Elementary (Grades 3-4); and
· Henderson (Grade 5).
The school zones for Sudduth Elementary, Ward-Steward Elementary and Henderson will remain the same.
Middle Schools
5. The following are the Short-Term and Long-term Proposed Plans for providing an education for the 6th, 7th and 8th grade students in the Starkville Consolidated School District:
Short Term –
· Sixth Grade Students in the Starkville School District will attend Overstreet. (8/1/15)
· The Alternative School will move to an alternate site.
· All 7th and 8th grade students in Starkville and Oktibbeha County School Districts will attend Armstrong Middle School.
Long Term –
Plan A –
· Reassign the 9th grade from the High School.
· Build an 8th and 9th grade school.
- Cost approximately $14M
- Move-in date of August 2017
· All 6th and 7th graders in the Starkville Consolidated School District will attend Armstrong Middle School.
Plan B
· Build 16 classrooms at Armstrong Middle School to provide classrooms for all 7th and 8th grade students in the Starkville Consolidated School District.
· Cost approximately $3,069,000.00.
· Move-in date of August 2016.
(Plan B is not the preferred plan to provide the best educational opportunities for students and will only be initiated if there is a lack of funding.)
High School
6. Students in Grades 9-12 at East Oktibbeha High School and West Oktibbeha High School will attend Starkville High School. (August, 2015)
Pre-Kindergarten Classrooms
7. Increase the number of Four-year-old Pre-Kindergarten classrooms. (Currently, Starkville School District has two (2) four-year-old Pre-kindergarten classes. Currently, Oktibbeha County School District has one (1) four-year-old Pre-kindergarten class at East Oktibbeha Elementary and one (1) four-year old class at West Oktibbeha Elementary.) |
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