REDISTRICTING COMMITTEE MEETS THURSDAY

A schools boundaries committee will meet next week to reconsider student population data used recently in a proposal to the Cape Girardeau Board of Education.

The Attendance Area Study Committee will meet at noon Thursday at the district's board office, 61 N. Clark. No questions or interviews will be taken from noncommittee members during the meeting.

The committee, which has been considering current and potential growth in elementary student populations for the past three months, submitted a redistricting proposal to the school board for consideration last month. However, possible discrepancies in student counts at Jefferson and Franklin schools required the 15-member committee to be reconvened to make necessary changes to the proposal.

Committee chairman Steve Trautwein said principals at Franklin and Jefferson schools will compare enrollment lists to ensure no overlap occurred in the data used in last month's proposal. If discrepancies do exist, the committee may have to alter proposed boundaries for those schools.

"Depending on how those numbers fall out, we may have to then change our recommendation because we were not using information that was completely accurate," he said.

It is doubtful the committee will propose changes to boundaries affecting other schools in the district, said Trautwein. A number of parents whose children currently attend Alma Schrader school disliked the committee's first proposal because it would send children living in at least two subdivisions to other elementary schools.

"I don't see that those would be impacted at all, but we're going to wait and see," he said.