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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And really the number of seats requested for DCI were chosen by the feeders, not DCI. Feeder leaders set their own number and gave that number to DCI. It may be that they underestimated DCI's appeal and did not factor in their own growth plans. [b]They could have chosen a higher number.[/b] [/quote]

Yes, but the number had to be grounded in each feeder's then-current enrollment ceiling. Even if a feeder was still growing toward 5th (as MV and DCB were at the time), the PCSB had approved a ceiling and the feeders then asked for a number of DCI seats that did not exceed their enrollment ceilings. The projections for each charter was reviewed by PCSB staff, and if, say MV had sought 80 more seats than they were then-approved for, and DCI went with that number, it would have been rejected by the PCSB and amended to reflect the MV ceiling.

When DCI sought its own charter, the asked for a ceiling that would accommodate all of those students AND additional seats for students who could lottery in (up through 9th). The PCSB demanded that DCI create seats for non-feeder kids when the application was moving through the process.

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