TPR interviews Dwayne Mears of the California-based Planning Center, who offers guidance on how to comply with the school district regulations and to build better, more effective schools.
"Like planning communities for an Irvine Co., we prefer to be brought into the school planning process in the early stages so that we can deal effectively with jurisdictions and bring other components together to create a community-based school. To make this happen, school districts have to have the necessary funding and be creative and patient. Unfortunately, the many pressures involved in housing children and having a certain number of classrooms open in time for the start of a new school year, often preclude the creative process from going forward. In such situations or in the cases where school districts have already established the site they are looking for, we are brought in on a more limited level to evaluate whether we can get the site approved."
Thanks to Josh Stephens
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