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District crafts plan for Twin Branch Acres
By Times Staff
Published March 14, 2006
TAMPA - One of northwest Hillsborough's oldest communities got a reprieve Monday in the school district's planning for a new elementary school in the region.
The families of Twin Branch Acres learned that superintendent MaryEllen Elia no longer is recommending that their 49 elementary school-aged children move from Bryant Elementary School to Lowry Elementary School, as originally proposed in the plan to create boundaries for a new campus in the Mandolin subdivision of Citrus Park.
Instead, Elia has recommended that the children attend the new school, which is slated to open in portables on the Citrus Park Elementary campus in the fall. She and her staff agreed with parents' complaints that their children should not be separated from all the teachers and other students they have gone to school with for the past four years.
Initially, Elia's staff wanted to move Twin Branch Acres to Lowry, where neighborhood students attended about a decade ago, because it has about 200 open seats.
Twin Branch Acres resident John Flood, whose daughter Sheridan attends Bryant Elementary, was pleased with the news - though not as happy as he would have been if the neighborhood had remained at Bryant.
"What's fair is fair," Flood said. "At least we're not being split from the children we know. At least we're still part of the community."
The School Board is scheduled to vote on the boundaries April 4.
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