Brevard County Schools Redistricting
The Brevard County School Board is considering redistricting some neighborhoods to ease overcrowding at some schools and more efficiently use other schools.
The facilities department has proposed some options that violate their criteria:
- Students who live within 2 miles of a school should not be bussed to another school.
- Students should not be bussed past one school to another.
The school board should also end “soft redistricting”, where children (and any siblings not yet in school) can continue to attend the old school while their neighbors go to the new school. In many cases this results in 2 busses entering the same neighborhood to take children to two different elementary schools. If money is so tight that teachers and staff haven’t had raises in two years, then how can the board justify this waste?