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Falling enrollment triggers study of 8 CUSD schools when enrollment begins to drop. The eight schools are Bologna, Hull, Frye, Galveston, Navarrete, San Marcos, Sanborn and Shumway Leadership Academy. All eight schools are signi�icantly below capacity. Only Shumway, Sanborn, and Frye are at more than 50% capacity. The other �ive are at half capacity or below, with Galveston having the most space at 42% capacity. Districts use the 100-day mark because enrollment �luctuates throughout the year, so it’s a way to compare what is consistent. Shumway is at 67% capacity, the most of
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handler Uni�ied School District’s intense growth spurt is ending and it faces a future of declining enrollment. The governing board heard what the district is doing to prepare for that future at its Aug. 10 meeting. About an hour was dedicated to a space utilization study, where district of�icials are bringing together a committee to focus on what to do with eight elementary schools
any of the eight schools. The board was told last spring that its demographics were changing. Homes are more expensive and younger families cannot afford to live here. The city’s population is getting older and there are fewer children who will need to attend school. Chandler is not the only district facing that problem, as both Kyrene and Tempe Union school districts last year were told basically the same thing by a demographer.
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Chickens stir debate Down but not out on city code enforcers BY KEN SAIN
Arizonan Managing Editor
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he City of Chandler is moving forward on a plan to allow up to �ive chicken hens in residential backyards. Council indicated it would support such a move in the spring and asked city staff to begin researching what an ordinance would look like. But there was one point Council was pretty �irm on: It does not want the police to handle any neighborhood complaints because of chickens. Those complaints would have to go through code enforcement. And critics say code enforcement is struggling to do its job now and that chicken complaints would overwhelm them. Not so, says city staff.
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