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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This says it was presented at a Miner PTO meeting. The map section starts on slide 17. I think these maps would be so much easier to read with non-residential space such as soccer fields grayed out. But Option 4 is intriguing.

https://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/Boundary_Study_School%20Meetings%20Miner_2.06.2024%20POSTING.pdf[/quote]

I think they are covering quite a bit when they talk about some school's utilization rates being affected. For instance, JOW is relatively underfilled and yet this shrinks the boundary seemingly just to get some more at risk kids to LT... But it seems to increase the size of LT's boundary a lot, which would drop the lottery spots available a ton, which is where lots of their existing at risk population comes from. So I'm not sure that change actually makes sense even in terms of its actual motivation even if it technically diversifies the IB population a bit. That said, the changes on the south side of that boundary seem like they'd make sense, because those are blocks where lots of kids go to LT via proximity preference already.

I also wonder if they've considered the proximity preference issue that has been such a problem for Watkins. It looks to me like some of the folks getting zoned out of their old IBs into Miner would likely end up with proximity preference to their old IB, which they'd presumably take, thus solving no actual problems.[/quote]

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