Maps of the recommended changes

are available at the affected elementary schools, and will be on display

at the Feb. 3 public hearing.

The Parent's Redistricting

Committee is composed of two parents each from Moreland, Eastside, Poplar

Road, Newnan Crossing and Jefferson Parkway Elementary Schools.

The committee was convened

Grantville Elementary School and the redrawing of district lines required

try to find a way to make room for new students at the fast-growing Newnan

Crossing and Eastside Elementary Schools.

The committee is asked to take

into consideration all legal and policy factors that the board must consider

when adopting new district lines.

On Monday, the parent committee

voted to adopt a final proposal that created a new Grantville Elementary

School district from the southern and eastern portions of Moreland Elementary

School, moved small portions of Eastside and Poplar Road School districts

into Moreland's district, and a small portion of Eastside School's

district into Willis Road.

With a recommendation from

Connell, however, the committee voted to leave Newnan Crossing and Jefferson

Parkway's as they are during this redistricting cycle.

No other elementary schools,

and no middle or high school district lines, are being affected in this

year's redistricting.

"I want to commend this

group for your hard work since October," Connell told the redistricting

committee Monday. "Redistricting is probably the most difficult issue

we have to deal with in the school system, and this committee has brought

a lot of dedication to your work. You've done a great job with this

proposal, and you have helped us in the school system with planning for

our future growth."

Newnan Crossing Parent Tricia

Palmer chaired the 10-person committee, along with co-chair Jay Moore

of Poplar Road Elementary School.

After the public hearing next

week, the committee plans to make a formal recommendation of the map and

related recommendations to the Board of Education at its Feb. 10 business

meeting. The board must make final decisions involving redistricting.

This year's committee is identical

to the one formed in 2001 to plan for the opening of Willis Road Elementary

School. Typically, the Coweta County Board of Education decides to redistrict

schools only when a new school opens, or when schools have become extremely

overcrowded. The Board and the Superintendent decided to form parental

advisory committees on redistricting in 2001 to better involve parents

in the process of drawing new school lines.