VENTURA : School Officials Promise New Figures

Ventura Unified School District officials, apologizing for errors in a boundary plan released Tuesday night, promised to return to the school board in two weeks with accurate figures.

Assistant Supt. Richard Averett told the board that correct information is available, but “we just punched the wrong keys.”

In December, administrators conducted a count of students districtwide who ride the bus under present boundaries. In the report, those figures were supposed to be compared with the estimated number of students who would ride the bus under the district’s proposed plan and under a plan devised by a committee of parents. In addition to clearing up numerical mistakes, Averett said the revised version would also include enrollment projections for Ventura’s two high schools for the next four to five years.