Apparently, the district is considering a proposal designed to reform our current system of school choice, while potentially strengthening neighborhood schools (POTENTIALLY).
The plan would limit choice somewhat, by creating four attendance zones and opening up enrollment in all schools to anyone who lives within that schools zone.
This would decrease the number of "city-wide" schools, but increase the number of choices in ones own "zone" of the city.
If this plan were implemented, is it assumed that students already enrolled in city-wide enrollment schools would be "grandfathered in" and allowed to keep their space until 6th grade. All High Schools would continue to draw students City-Wide.
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Posted on Tue, Oct. 05, 2004 http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/9836591.htm
School-choice changes take shape
A St. Paul task force calls the system 'flawed' and favors steps to strengthen neighborhood schools.
BY JOHN WELBES
"The school-choice system in St. Paul public schools, though popular, is "fundamentally flawed" because of built-in inequities, says a report from a task force that Superintendent Pat Harvey formed last spring."
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