Because magnet schools break down
traditional school attendance boundaries by allowing families to choose schools that appeal most to their children's academic interest and talents, they are often more integrated.
Just last year, parents in Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia argued — ultimately unsuccessfully — to
revise school attendance boundaries to make more segregated 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).
Board members were «knee - deep» in the controversial process of
streamlining school attendance boundaries at the time but began gathering information about how other districts across the country were handling superintendent searches, he said.
Mapping data company Maponics LLC is now offering a tool that rates the walkability of neighborhoods,
school attendance boundary zones, subdivisions, and other geographical areas.
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.
We analyze data from
the School Attendance Boundaries Survey (SABS) from the National Center on Educational Statistics (NCES) and estimate that about 70 percent of U.S. families live within a school attendance boundary documented by the SABS.
Underenrolled schools are a long - running problem for the district, and CPS is revisiting the idea of combining multiple schools into one building and changing neighborhoods»
school attendance boundaries — steps that could reassign students to new schools.
School attendance boundaries can change.