UPDATE: The same school board that voted to acquire the property before the 2012 bond election ; voted NOT to move forward with the purchase. HISD kicked off the 2012 Bond in front of Westbury High School with a lot of promises for "A NEW Westbury" and once voters approved the bond those promises were not kept. The HISD Board of Trustees, during closed
session next week on November
13, will be discussing the
bond scope for Westbury High School - specifically the fate of a campus
expansion for WHS that HISD has already begun and had promised to continue as
part of the 2012 Bond Program land acquisition. The fate of the WHS campus
expansion is at serious risk.
1. An online petition has been prepared to show
support for WHS to become a School of Choice and to support Campus Expansion.
We hope that you will sign it as an endorsement of support AND
also help us spread the petition link as fast as possible. Here is the
link to the petition on Change.org: http://goo.gl/UX7nyo If the link does not function: https://www.change.org/p/hisd-tell-hisd-that-you-want-westbury-high-school-to-become-a-school-of-choice-and-that-you-support-campus-expansion
2. Additionally, a TIMELINE document has been prepared to document the decades of effort that parents, alumni, and the community have devoted in an effort to revitalize Westbury High School. It is amazing how long and how hard we all have been working over the past THIRTY years to improve WHS. The TIMELINE is 16 pages long, in chronological order, with photos and diagrams near the end, including some of the recent positive steps that WHS and HISD have taken at the school. It is an attachment below.
3. For additional reference, an HISD document about the 2013 Demographics for WHS is attached below. You will see that 1,173 students zoned to WHS transferred out to other HISD campuses. Another 1,024 students zoned to WHS are not in public school. There were a total of 4,335 students zoned to WHS last year. Of those, 1,859 attended WHS. Also, 215 students transferred IN to WHS last year (primarily from Madison or Sharpstown). |
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