Sentences with phrase «redrawing school boundaries»

Newer additions include Bloomington, Minnesota, and Salina, Kansas, both of which used socioeconomic balance as a factor in redrawing school boundaries in recent years.

The D.C. Advisory Committee on Student Assignment, which is redrawing school boundary lines and feeder patterns, should seize this opportunity.

Rezoning issues: Complaints from parents prompt the Brevard County School Board to table a plan to redraw school boundaries that would move nearly 400 students out of Melbourne High School.

So let us just stipulate that there are no really good solutions, and school boards and administrators are often faced with very difficult decisions when having to redraw school boundaries.

Not exact matches

She recommended that educational leaders should consider redrawing boundaries to reduce the number and fragmentation of school districts in major metropolitan areas.

Redraw boundaries to engineer more schools with socioeconomic balance.

It also follows a natural experiment we examined in which students affected by the redrawing of school attendance zone boundaries were essentially randomly assigned to schools that went on more or fewer field trips to see live performances at the Walton Arts Center.

Thus the redrawing of school boundaries led to concentrations of minority students in some schools.

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).

Districts should shift away from the traditional notion of a neighborhood school and redraw attendance zone boundaries so that they transcend neighborhood lines.

The declining enrollment and several successive years of budget deficits has necessitated school closings and a wholesale redrawing of attendance boundaries as MPS seeks to focus its resources.

The other way schools are creating economic diversity is to redraw district boundaries so that more middle class students attend low - income schools.

Tasked with redrawing enrollment boundaries in fast - growing Loudoun County to ease overcrowding, some school board members have suggested doing away with the practice of dispersing students from a cluster of high - density Leesburg apartment complexes to several affluent schools, some up to three miles away.

As charters continue to expand, they will force districts to make more and more tough choices on personnel, closing schools and redrawing attendance boundaries, both political poisons.

Officials have been grappling with the area's rapid growth and escalating student population by aggressively building new facilities and redrawing jurisdiction lines of existing schools, keeping local school district boundaries in flux.