The public comment period on the Wake County community-baaed student assignment zone maps has been indefinitely extended.
The comment period had been set to expire midnight Monday. But at the request of school board member John Tedesco, chairman of the student assignment committee, the online comment page will be left up throughout the development of the new maps.
Tedesco said the page should be updated after each decision made by the committee to reflect the latest changes.
The current comment page, as of Wednesday evening, still had up all four sample maps. It should be updated to only include the high school base assignment map and the new regional zone map.
A presentation to the committee on Tuesday showed people were either not thrilled with the maps or wanted more information. Click here for the spreadsheet.
Of the 650 comments, a total of 268, or 41.2 percent, disliked the maps. Another 177, or 27.2 percent, liked them while 139, or 21.4 percent, wanted more information.
Without detailed node information on the site, a plurality of comments was on the maps in general.
The best response was for the high school base assignment map picked by the committee to be the starting point for the new plan. Of the 132 responses, a total of 66, or 50 percent, liked the map. You had 46, or 34.9 percent, dislike it with 15, or 11.4 percent, wanting more information.
Comments
Where are you...
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:04 — bpuli9999getting the data on the comments from? Where can we see the comments other people posted? How do I know my comment was included? Why all this secrecy? Isn't this supposed to be an open process?
like vs dislike?
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 12:01 — Athey01Unsure if I understand. I made a comment, but it was not stated in the form of liking or disliking a map. Now, I wonder how my comment was considered.