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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I forgot add that the county is not segregating by race. If you go to the statisticatlas links above for Howard County, take a look at the distribution of race across the county. You'll see that the races tend to distribute themselves in groups around the county. Caucasians are much more likely to buy in the western part of the county and the minorities have bigger clusters in different parts of the county.

HCPSS revisits the zoning for schools every 2 years. They prioritize trying to move groups from oversubscribed schools to under-subscribed schools trying to get each school as close to 100% optimal capacity. And they move neighborhoods, not races. If you want to see some of the proposed adjustments, take a look at this individuals web-site. Look at the original proposed map (the one in all green) and compare it with the demographic charts on statisticatlas. You'll see that adjusting for each school to be evenly populated concentrates various races in some schools just because of where they live.. [/quote]

This X100. School boundaries should be based on keeping neighborhoods together, kids close to home schools and having a sense of community. Its overreaching IMO for school systems to judge where people choose to live and try to remodel things by bussing kids far away. Its a losing exercise anyway. If you rezone wealthy areas into poorer areas and vice versa, you just change the monetary value of the properties. Wealthy people will migrate back to the more expensive properties and poor people will migrate back toward the more affordable ones and you'll be back where you started.

Howard is just being more rational and focusing on educating ALL its students. [/quote]

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