Why do the two solutions recommended by the committee have different schools? Shouldn the closing of five schools just add a school to the scenario that closes four schools?
The committee did not look at individual schools for closure. They used a process that evaluated sets of schools. There were 495 possible scenarios to close four schools and 792 possible scenarios to close five schools. The committee applied criteria to each of the scenarios to arrive at their top solutions. The four and five-school closure options were looked at independently. Each scenario depends on complex redrawing of attendance boundaries. All schools are affected, not only the schools that close. The committee believes they have chosen two viable options as they have been presented, even though not all schools in the close-four scenario are represented in the close-five scenario and vice versa.
