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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not the nationally accepted standard.

The American Planning Association states that no elementary student should have to walk more than 5/8 of a mile in any type of rural or urban setting. The ideal is no more than 1/4 - 1/5 a mile maximum as the earlier poster stated.
(https://www.planning.org/pas/at60/report175.htm)

[/b]I am going to pay more attention to organizations, such a school districts, that have experience serving large numbers of schools.  This is a very common standard used in many states in the nation.  Can you point to other school systems that have a policy of not having elementary students walk up to a mile?[b]

The EPA is also very clear on this:

"Locate school such that a large portion of the student body lives within 1?2 mile (elementary)"

(http://www.epa.gov/schools/siting/downloads/Exhibit_4_Desirable_Attributes_of_Candidate_Locations.pdf)

[/b]Murch and Hearst both meet this standard.  But no one is talking about relocating schools here.  The schools are built and they aren't moving."[b]

Further Sustainable D.C., A city government planning initiative, would like to see 75 percent of D.C. commutes made via transit, bike or walking. This goal is greatly diminished by intentionally placing children over one mile from their neighborhood schools.

[b]This child has a commute that is both walkable, and meets the standard described above as less than a mile. If we're talking Hearst, accessible by transportation as there is a bus line that runs up Wisconsin Ave. and stops by Sidwell, a block away from the Hearst campus.  "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/in-the-district-a-transportation-planthat-boosts-transit-and-discourages-driving/2014/06/03/c7721ac8-eb17-11e3-b98c-72cef4a00499_story.html

Also see the earlier poster below

Anonymous wrote:
Did the DME document that "within a mile standard" anywhere? That isn't a standard that is used in city planning or sustainable living principles for walkability. It is smaller then that, .25-.5 miles. DME should apply the principals that the rest of the urban planning world uses for walkability and not move people that are currently within those principles just b/c their new assignment is also less then a mile.

Yes, the DME has clearly proposed a within a mile standard within the proposal.  It is referenced several times, and students whose commutes to their IB schools don't meet this standard are offered proximity preference at closer schools.

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