Sentences with phrase «local school attendance zone»

Citywide schools are those that accept applications from the entire city without serving any particular local school attendance zone.

Under an intradistrict choice policy, a family is able to choose any traditional public school within their school district, even if it falls outside of their local school attendance zone.

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In extreme cases, however, attendance zones are deliberately drawn to exclude poor students from affluent schools.60 However, gerrymandering attendance zones is far less common than drawing zones that merely reflect the characteristics of the local area.61 Most school assignment systems sort students based on their place of residence, mimicking patterns of housing segregation.

Other state laws restrict attendance zones for charter schools, making it more difficult for charters to attract a diverse population from a wide geographic area.63 And even state laws that require charter schools to mirror local demographics could end up concentrating poverty.

For those schools, the supplement will equal the average local per - pupil funding for the school systems that comprise the actual attendance zone when that average is lower than the state average.

Other possible reasons why public school segregation increased as neighborhoods became more integrated include gerrymandering of public school attendance zones by race or class and other decisions made by local public school boards.

Since it launched last September, the app has gained new features, including the ability to draw custom search areas, access local school information, run searches based on school attendance zones, and customize the cover page photo of property and seller's reports.