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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]

In other words, yes, you do want to pay for an additional study.

And it wouldn't be helpful at all to understand families why they are being assigned to particular schools in the Montgomery County Public Schools district, because boundary decisions in MCPS are based on four factors: geography, facility utilization, stability of school assignments, and demographics.[/quote]

Yes, but *which* of the four factors are mainly responsible for a particular school boundary?   By isolating the the effects of geography and school capacities, it would provide greater transparency to the public as to how decisions are made.   [/quote]

The whole thing about balancing the factors is that there is not one factor that is mainly responsible for a particular school boundary.

What's more, many of these school boundaries are DECADES old. The factor that is mainly responsible for those boundaries is inertia.[/quote]

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