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Editor’s Note 06/28/24: The submission above has been marked as “Completed”. As written, it is unclear what specific, searchable public records the sender would like to receive:
“for the 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024 school years:” … “The number of students related (biologically, maritally, or adopted) to Members of the Board of Directors, School Administrators, Teaching Staff, Coaching Staff, and any other employee type of the school enrolled in the “Day School” program and / or enrolled in the charter school in grades K-12.”
– Based on our experience requesting data sets from many entities – we feel it’s very unlikely WMPCS will be able to query the records requested, in the manner requested, or that they even keep track of the data that’s being requested in such a way that it could even be searched.
– We don’t know how many records a request like this would potentially include, how many employees, board members etc. have been associated with the school at any point since 2021, or how many students have attended the school each year since 2021 — but due to the nature of what you’re seeking and since the records cover a 3 year period, as it’s written we find the request to be overly broad and unclear.
– Are you specifically asking to know the number of students during that time period who have a parent that served in any of those positions? If you’re interested in knowing how many students are related in any way (for example: grandparent, aunt, uncle, sibling, cousin, etc.) to the people mentioned, then that is a much different / larger request. In either case, we feel this data is likely something that cannot be queried.
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