Tyler ISD Board to Consider Revamped Elementary School Zones

TYLER — Tyler ISD trustees will vote Monday evening on a complete revision of elementary school attendance zones. That follows recent approval of new middle and high school attendance zones for the next school year. Several elementary schools have split zones dating to TISD’s days under a federal desegregation order that has since been lifted. Officials say the current situation puts some students far away from their schools, making for some excessively long bus trips. Officials also point out that demographics have changed significantly since the 1970 desegregation order, with the district now about 72 per cent minority.

You can go to https://www.tylerisd.org/cms/lib/TX01918383/Centricity/domain/4/board/meetings/2018/2018-03-26%20Regular%20Agenda.pdf and scroll down to page 10 for a look at the board agenda item on this topic.