CABARRUS COUNTY, N.C. — Tuesday, Cooperative Strategies presented its final plan to the Cabarrus County Board of Education detailing which realignment choice would best suit the district. It comes as the district is struggling with schools that are reaching maximum capacity.
Last year, the school board hired California-based Cooperative Strategies to come up with solutions to ease the issue of overcrowding. Cooperative Strategies came up with three plans -- each plan varied in the amount of movement that it would cause for students in the district.
Each scenario or plan would affect students, from a short-term fix which would affect a few hundred to a thousand students, to a more comprehensive plan which could mean hundreds or thousands of students' families could have new schools by the start of the next school next year.
Cooperative Strategies provided its final summary on the long-range district realignment study Tuesday and detailed the work that has been done by their team throughout the process.
The presentation included a review of the firm's findings, a long-term facilities master plan, framework criteria for boundary options, maps and boundary scenarios, data analysis, and a recommendation for a boundary option for Cabarrus County Schools.
Tuesday night, leaders said the impacts of population growth need to be addressed, and fast. The school board is expected to vote on the final plan on Feb. 12.
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