The real driver of segregation in American education is
the neighborhood school attendance boundary, which is tied to segregated housing patterns.
Charter schools can reach across
neighborhood school attendance boundaries to enroll diverse groups of students.
Not exact matches
Thus the redrawing of
school attendance boundaries as contiguous
neighborhood zones led to a marked increase in segregation in CMS
schools (Mickelson 2005, Godwin et al. 2007, Jackson 2009).
For example, suppose a district draws
attendance boundaries to integrate
schools and that, as a result, families decide to move (for any reason) to other
neighborhoods within the district.
Controlled choice eliminates the default assignment of a
neighborhood school in a district, removes traditional
school attendance boundaries, and creates larger zones or catchment areas within the district.
Districts should shift away from the traditional notion of a
neighborhood school and redraw
attendance zone
boundaries so that they transcend
neighborhood lines.
School locations and neighborhood attendance boundaries have been updated for the 2018 - 2019 school year (all boundaries represented are effective July 1,
School locations and
neighborhood attendance boundaries have been updated for the 2018 - 2019
school year (all boundaries represented are effective July 1,
school year (all
boundaries represented are effective July 1, 2018).
Your home address falls within an elementary and high
school attendance boundary: these are your
neighborhood schools.
One would leave all the option and
neighborhood school designations the same and adjust
attendance boundaries; the other would change both the
school designations and the
boundaries.
Disclaimer: Disclaimer: The
neighborhood school address search is provided to allow easy access and visual display of
school attendance boundary and
school location information.
Magnet cluster
schools are
neighborhood schools that also accept students, through a computerized lottery, from outside of their
attendance boundaries.
Unlike charter
schools, which can draw students from a broad geographic area,
neighborhood schools must adhere to CPS»
attendance boundaries.
To answer the first two questions, I focus on the roles of
neighborhood change (particularly gentrification), changing
school attendance boundaries, and the availability of non-local
school choice options.
Our Charter is under the Fulton County
School District therefore, attendance boundaries have been established for each neighborhood school within Fulton C
School District therefore,
attendance boundaries have been established for each
neighborhood school within Fulton C
school within Fulton County.
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Its data products include area data (
neighborhood, metro and residential
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