This "Redistricting Proposal" would consolidate fourteen local community school districts, including yours, replacing them with one gigantic 116,000 student district, requiring the 76 elected school board members to pare themselves down to a single, 5 member board, creating the irreversible elimination of your local community school districts.
It is shocking that a 13 member commission managed to get a referendum on the ballot with such reckless, vague, and unsupported speculation that it "might" eventually lower district spending. But, at the expense of student learning and community involvement? Vote NO!
With no substantial research to support these careless predictions, and an enormous number of indicators that this poorly researched, unplanned, haphazard, thrown together referendum will not serve the best interests of our students or improve student achievement, Vote NO!
This referendum requires that one five member school board serve ann enormous student population, while coordinating a wide variety of student programs, all for a misguided possibility of spending a bit less on school administration. Can reasonable, thinking citizens believe this is good for our kids?
Maintain your school district, defend your local control over education issues, and protect your ability to access your community's school board members. Vote NO!
Ed Bufford, President
Phoenix Union High School District
Classroom Teachers' Association