The thing that's also kind of crazy about the lack of discussion of King Arts is that the entire neighborhood around there is bussed to Lincolnwood and it is only two blocks from the fifth ward.
If "walkability" is the goal, you could imagine a scenario where you get rid of its magnet status and redistrict so the kids bussed to Lincolnwoo…
The thing that's also kind of crazy about the lack of discussion of King Arts is that the entire neighborhood around there is bussed to Lincolnwood and it is only two blocks from the fifth ward.
If "walkability" is the goal, you could imagine a scenario where you get rid of its magnet status and redistrict so the kids bussed to Lincolnwood walk to King. You also make a few adjustments on the West end of the Dewey map so all of the kids who live south of Emerson go to either Dewey or the neighborhood King school. All of those addresses are less than a mile from either King or Dewey.
You do that and you eliminate bussing to Willard and Lincolnwood.
All of the addresss north of Emerson continue to go to Kingsley, which is less than a mile from the furthermost point in the existing boundaries. Are kids south of McCormick actually bussed to Kingsley currently?
Yes, except King Lab is in the 2nd Ward, so I am sure you'll see the Make The Fifth Ward Great Again people oppose the idea.
I must give the new school advocates some credit for framing the debate around City of Evanston Wards. You hear people repeat the falsehood that "The Fifth Ward is the only ward that doesn't have a school." (There is no school in the First Ward and nobody talks about that).
Of course the reality is that the ward boundaries are arbitrary, can change every decade after the Census, and have nothing to do with the school district.
It would have saved the taxpayers lots of money if the City of Evanston had just moved the 5th Ward boundaries--which end right now at Green Bay and McCormick-- a few hundred feet across Green Bay to include the Prairie/Lincoln/McCormick/Green Bay block. It wouldn't have added any population to the Fifth Ward, but the MTFWGA crowd would get two Fifth Ward schools overnight!
My kids have to go to a different ward to go to school and it means absolutely nothing.
The thing that's also kind of crazy about the lack of discussion of King Arts is that the entire neighborhood around there is bussed to Lincolnwood and it is only two blocks from the fifth ward.
If "walkability" is the goal, you could imagine a scenario where you get rid of its magnet status and redistrict so the kids bussed to Lincolnwood walk to King. You also make a few adjustments on the West end of the Dewey map so all of the kids who live south of Emerson go to either Dewey or the neighborhood King school. All of those addresses are less than a mile from either King or Dewey.
You do that and you eliminate bussing to Willard and Lincolnwood.
All of the addresss north of Emerson continue to go to Kingsley, which is less than a mile from the furthermost point in the existing boundaries. Are kids south of McCormick actually bussed to Kingsley currently?
Yes ... move the boundaries a little and voila, you have a Fifth Ward school (King Lab). And you've saved $40 million.
Yes, except King Lab is in the 2nd Ward, so I am sure you'll see the Make The Fifth Ward Great Again people oppose the idea.
I must give the new school advocates some credit for framing the debate around City of Evanston Wards. You hear people repeat the falsehood that "The Fifth Ward is the only ward that doesn't have a school." (There is no school in the First Ward and nobody talks about that).
Of course the reality is that the ward boundaries are arbitrary, can change every decade after the Census, and have nothing to do with the school district.
It would have saved the taxpayers lots of money if the City of Evanston had just moved the 5th Ward boundaries--which end right now at Green Bay and McCormick-- a few hundred feet across Green Bay to include the Prairie/Lincoln/McCormick/Green Bay block. It wouldn't have added any population to the Fifth Ward, but the MTFWGA crowd would get two Fifth Ward schools overnight!
My kids have to go to a different ward to go to school and it means absolutely nothing.