Committee plans parent video and website overhaul to explain how magnet lottery works
July 24, 2026 | Bridgeport School District, School Districts, Connecticut
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Committee members agreed that improving communications — a clear informational webpage and a short explainer video — is a top action item to accompany policy changes.
The chair described a simple site layout with a prominent informational page explaining selection order, sibling rules and waiting‑list procedures, plus a small login box for the application portal. "The website truly is just informational, general," the chair said, and asked staff to provide a development (dev) site so the committee can review the appearance and content before the board presentation.
Staff agreed to produce a dev site and suggested the video focus on a few concrete topics (how lottery selections are pulled, how to list siblings, and waiting-list rules). The committee set a timeline: staff to deliver a draft redlined policy and dev website material ahead of the July 30 meeting so the August board packet can include communications examples and the policy proposal.
The chair described a simple site layout with a prominent informational page explaining selection order, sibling rules and waiting‑list procedures, plus a small login box for the application portal. "The website truly is just informational, general," the chair said, and asked staff to provide a development (dev) site so the committee can review the appearance and content before the board presentation.
Staff agreed to produce a dev site and suggested the video focus on a few concrete topics (how lottery selections are pulled, how to list siblings, and waiting-list rules). The committee set a timeline: staff to deliver a draft redlined policy and dev website material ahead of the July 30 meeting so the August board packet can include communications examples and the policy proposal.
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