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.
Not exact matches
Disclaimer:
School attendance zone boundaries are supplied by Pitney Bowes and are subject to change.
We are also going to use
attendance zone boundaries as an exogenous source of variation to make stronger causal claims about how past
school field trips may have contributed to current behaviors and attitudes.
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.
As it turns out, both of the
school districts in this study had experienced rapid enrollment growth and built several new elementary and middle
schools, forcing
attendance zone boundaries to be re-drawn.
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).
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.
For example, Stamford Public
Schools in Connecticut, draws its attendance zone boundaries so that all schools are within 10 percentage points of the district's average share of «educationally disadvantaged» st
Schools in Connecticut, draws its
attendance zone boundaries so that all
schools are within 10 percentage points of the district's average share of «educationally disadvantaged» st
schools are within 10 percentage points of the district's average share of «educationally disadvantaged» students.
Districts should shift away from the traditional notion of a neighborhood
school and redraw
attendance zone boundaries so that they transcend neighborhood lines.
The
school district has
attendance zones (
boundary lines), and each student is assigned to an in -
boundary school based on those lines.
The ideas of having
school attendance zones that are open with no
boundaries however could be a major challenge.
As a longer - term solution, Henderson pointed to the new
school boundary plan that will shrink Wilson's
attendance zone.
While public
schools draw students from predetermined
attendance zones, magnet
schools are not subject to these
boundaries.
She also erased the
boundaries of its
attendance zone by turning Watts into a magnet
school.
As of January of this year, Chicagoans had access to 256
schools with no
attendance zones in addition to the 415
schools with
attendance boundaries; 130 of these no -
zone schools were charters (Richards and Perez, 2016).
Disclaimer:
School attendance zone boundaries are supplied by Pitney Bowes and are subject to change.
Disclaimer:
School attendance zone boundaries are supplied by Maponics and are subject to change.
Its data products include area data (neighborhood, metro and residential
boundaries along with
school attendance zones), point of interest data (restaurants, banks, shopping and more), and community data (crime, population, education, weather and commuter times).