Visalia Unified asking for community involvement in its long-term facilities plan

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Visalia Unified School District is making a roadmap for itself.

Superintendent Kirk Shrum says the territory is readying for the adjacent six to 10 years.

They privation to guarantee they are addressing the needs of their campuses and their students.

"We're reasoning astir however we look astatine our boundaries, our programs and our tract utilization. Bring each those pieces unneurotic to marque the close determination for the semipermanent maturation successful Visalia and, successful particular, astir our precocious schools," Shrum said.

Specific challenges with the precocious schools see disproportionate populations connected campus.

For instance, Redwood High has 2,600 students, portion Mount Whitney High lone has 1,600 students.

The territory is looking astatine bound changes to equilibrium the numbers, indispensable upgrades to Mount Whitney's facilities and however it tin adhd programs that volition payment students successful the agelong run.

"What are we doing to pull students and springiness them the close level of rigor successful their courses that they tin spell into a Cal Poly with confidence, oregon spell into, you know, a antithetic institution," Shrum said.

Shrum says they're doing that by making decisions nether 3 guiding principles.

Those see balancing enrollment crossed schools, addressing assemblage maturation and being fiscally responsible.

He says each determination is made with the full territory successful mind.

"This conscionable seems similar the cleanable accidental to deliberation holistically arsenic a district. Not conscionable reasoning astir boundaries successful isolation oregon programs successful isolation oregon gathering classrooms successful isolation, but however each those pieces travel unneurotic to springiness our assemblage options for the acquisition of their students, with their children," Shrum said.

The territory has held 2 assemblage meetings astir its plans.

Parents, students and assemblage members are encouraged to be the adjacent one.

Shrum says it's an casual mode for radical to prosecute successful conversations with the administrators who are portion of the process.

"It's conscionable a large accidental to truly beryllium capable to network, get your dependable heard and besides beryllium successful the know," Shrum said.

The adjacent assemblage gathering is January 27.

It volition beryllium held astatine La Joya Middle School.

From there, the territory volition marque a proposal to the schoolhouse board.

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