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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS should do a reference boundary study without using diversity as a criterion, but only balancing school populations.      Comparison of  this reference map with actual proposed  boundary changes will tell us if  there is any forced (or unnecessary) busing being proposed.[/quote]

Here's what you need to do.

1. Run for a seat on the Board of Education.
2. Win.
3. Propose a change to MCPS policies/regulations on boundaries.
4. Get a majority of the other members to vote for it.

Until you've done that, MCPS boundary studies have four factors:

1. geography
2. demographics
3. facility utilization
4. stability of school assignments

and any analysis of boundaries that didn't include those four factors would be ridiculous (not to mention counter to MCPS policies/regulations).[/quote]

The boundardystudy without the diversity criterion would be for informational purposes only.     Such an informational study would not be counter to current MCPS policies.      Maybe it would show that the use of the diversity criterion does not cause any significant increase in busing.[/quote]

We're already paying for a boundary analysis whose purpose is to provide the information that MCPS needs about school boundaries.

Now you want to pay for an additional boundary analysis, whose purpose would to provide only some of the information that MCPS needs about school boundaries? [/quote]

The additional boundary analysis would be **much** cheaper.    It is a simple optimization problem where the capture radius of each school is expanded until it fills its capacity, or intersects another school radius,  or intersects a county boundary.

It would be very helpful for families to help understand why they are being assigned to a particular school district.[/quote]

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