Naked City
Shhh! It's an AISD Secret!
By Michael King, Fri., Dec. 20, 2002
In response to an open-records request from the Statesman, the district wrote to Attorney General Greg Abbott, asking for a legal opinion granting permission to withhold the documents as "predecisional and deliberative." In the meantime, even task force members trying to report their own findings to parents' groups have been told they can't have copies of their own recommendations.
The administration is currently reviewing the task force reports before making its own recommendations to the board of trustees early next year. Some parents have argued they are not convinced that AISD's proposal to add a sixth grade at Kealing and to enlarge the sixth grade at Martin with more feeder schools is in the students' best interests. More pointedly, they complain that the district is apparently engaging in a charade of public input after having already made its decision to proceed with the reorganization.
At press time, AISD's public information office had not yet responded to a request for comment.
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