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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Map 1 has an easy explanation but it’s not something anyone wants to say out loud: if you concentrate the poverty at a handful of schools then the rest will be considered “good” and the transfer rates will go down. Sacrifice Barcroft, Randolph, Carlin Springs, and Drew so that the rest are acceptable to the middle class.[/quote]

You're not wrong but we are already doing that and it's why Henry and Oakridge were so crowded and why this whole process started in the first place.

The "rest" are two schools: Henry and Oakridge. Families flocked to those schools over the last ten years because they were the least poor of SA schools. That got momentum and the result was that both schools FRL rates fell by over 30 points. That led to those schools getting really crowded, because once the rate started going down people really wanted to catch that train.

Meanwhile, the CB built more and more subsidized housing in the other SA schools zones, making their FRLs even higher, and barring any redevelopment of Barcroft Apts. That only made Henry and Oakridge even more desirable, since it was now clear that Barcroft, Randolph, carlin, had no way to lower their frl rates via gentrification and UMC buy in the way that Henry and Oakridge had.

Enter this boundary process, which reveals that at the moment- sa is not overcrowded. Claremont, Oakridge and Henry are. And why? Because the other schools, the rest, are segregated, high poverty, and undesirable to a large potion of the SA MC and UMC. Our segregation is the root cause of overcrowding, not our "success" as a school district in general.[/quote]

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