Back in July the EMID Board saw a slideshow by consultants from District Management Council (DMC) describing their findings from the strategic planning process. It looks like that slideshow was finally made available to the public yesterday. It is now on the EMID district website. The document is a PDF of a PowerPoint slideshow.

Note, no other output of the strategic planning process has been made public. This slideshow is marked “Preliminary/Draft” on every slide, so we are not sure it is the final output of the process. On slide 12 you will find the three options the board is recommending. Option three, which we have interpreted as “close the schools” is called “merge students back into home district schools” on this slide!

Also posted last night was a letter from Superintendent Robicheau about the planning process and the upcoming board meetings. At least he is honest enough to call option three “closing the EMID magnet schools”. Dr. Robicheau also says the board may hold some public forum sessions before the 9/21 school board meeting, though no specifics are provided. This is already a significant shift, since up to now the board had only planned public input sessions after their October 19 meeting.

Please do review the slideshow and share any insights you glean from it. This is a dense document full of “facts & figures” that may feel a bit jumbled. We need as many eyes looking it over as possible!