The Howard County Board of Education moved to delay when it will make a final vote in the school district's latest redistricting effort, after not being able to fully support one of the concepts that were up for debate on Thursday.

The Board of Education was supposed to have a straw vote Thursday. The vote would've help guide HCPSS superintendent Bill Barnes and his team to draft motions for the board to vote on at its Nov. 20 meeting.

The new timeline has now added a public hearing and straw vote for Nov. 20, and a final vote for Dec. 4.

Before making the new timeline, the board did decide to spare one of the schools that triggered this process.

Selecting a plan

The board's first order of business was to pare down the list of 11 concepts to redistrict. The process, also known as boun

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