LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- The JCPS School Board is debating student assignment plans for middle and high school students, the issue is whether to implement the middle school and high school student assignment plan next year, or postpone it. However, Superintendent Sheldon Berman proposed what he called a middle of the road option and threw the board members for a loop.
When this meeting started, the board had two options on the table. They could either postpone the middle and high school student assignment plans for another year, or get the ball rolling on next year. This all in the midst of the busing issues with the new elementary school student assignment plan. Still, most people who spoke to the board Wednesday were for rolling out the middle and high school plans, regardless of whatever busing requirements come with them.
Superintendent Berman proposed what he called a "middle of the road option´in which the middle school assignment plan will be phased in next year, and the high school students will be phased in the year after that. Carol Haddad and other board members said that would only make the transportation issues more confusing and problematic.
In the end, rather than vote on what will happen next year, the board voted to vote on that issue at the next meeting. The board still has to discuss and tweak the elementary school plan at the next meeting.
