The Howard County Board of Education held a straw vote Thursday night, moving forward with a redistricting plan, after delaying the vote last week.

If the board officially votes it in at its next meeting, the plan will move around 146 elementary and middle school students.

School district staff will draft motions based on the plan the board went with, for the board to vote on at its Dec. 4 meeting.

Picking a plan

After more than nine months since the Howard County Public School System's redistricting process started, the Board of Education is now backing what was known as Scenario IV-B.

This scenario helps bring down Bryant Woods Elementary School -- one of the schools that triggered this process -- to nearly 82% capacity next school year.

But, the board also moved to include two pol

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