{"id":24453,"date":"2015-01-15T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=24453"},"modified":"2015-01-15T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T20:00:50","slug":"letter-ucf-should-redistrict-k-5-schools-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=24453","title":{"rendered":"Letter: UCF should redistrict K-5 schools now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To The Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Letters1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1021037\" alt=\"Letters1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Letters1.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a>I cannot understand why our district is not going to reconfigure the four\u00a0K-5 schools in our district. Was the consultant hired just to support the wishes of the\u00a0Administration and School Board? Did the consultant have access to minutes and\u00a0letters when the district was determining how to handle its K to 5 students?<\/p>\n<p>After many meetings discussions, and letters our district residents supported\u00a0four K-5 neighborhood schools whose student population would never exceed 700\u00a0students. Currently three of four of our K-5 schools exceed their designed capacity.\u00a0Only Unionville Elementary School is operation under its designed capacity,\u00a0significantly under its design capacity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Our district should be redistricting now to create more equal student density\u00a0at each school. With proper redistricting each of the four K- 5 schools would operate\u00a0at around 900\/o of their individual design capacity. UES would see a large increase of\u00a0about 170 students. The other three K-5 schools would experience minor drops in\u00a0student populations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Bruce B. Yelton,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Pocopson<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To The Editor: I cannot understand why our district is not going to reconfigure the four\u00a0K-5 schools in our district. Was the consultant hired just to support the wishes of the\u00a0Administration and School Board? Did the consultant have access to minutes and\u00a0letters when the district was determining how to handle its K to 5 students? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6638,592,1286],"class_list":["post-24453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-k-5-schools","tag-redistricting","tag-unionville-chadds-ford-school-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}