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[quote=Anonymous]The urgency is all about taking advantage of demographic trends to get higher SES kids into lower performing schools.  The recession-driven baby boom has given the city a critical mass of kids currently in the early grades of ES with more on the way.  If more of them get into their neighborhood schools and stick with those schools through the testing grades - as opposed to jumping around to charters and OOB, which weakens cohorts and challenges teachers who have to deal with varied learning levels - then there 's a greater chance of raising scores at underperforming schools. You also have solid classes ready to feed the middle and high schools.

If we wait until say 2016-17, we lose more families to OOB and charter in those early grades, and we still have overcrowded schools, underenrolled schools, and more families moving to the suburbs.

My kid's going into PK4 at a rising school that feeds into a non-existent MS.  We need more than that school to rise - we need the other neighborhood schools around us to fill up and rise as well, so there are plenty of "well-prepared" 6th graders to feed that middle school.

The new boundary proposal puts us at an ES that I would not consider an option if I hadn't learned (thanks to the unified lottery) that it went from priority to reward in just three years.

It doesn't take as long as you think to turn schools around. But the time to start is now.[/quote]

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