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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Opportunity costs for which segments of the population? 
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The opportunity is a large pool of families with children not yet in school and/or in the early grades. If they're lost, it's a cost to the entire system.  That's not to say that families making choices for middle and high school aren't important, but the objective is to boost enrollment from the bottom and create more stable feeder patterns from PS through 12th grades. If you're in boundary for a good school, you want to reduce the overcrowding for more manageable class sizes.  If you're headed for a failing school, you want more families in that school who will at least give it a try and maybe stay to help it improve.  But redistributing families into the schools closest to where they live is only part of the equation.

A big factor in quality and raising test scores that no one really talks about is all the shifting around that families do as they try to find a better fit.  In classrooms outside of the handful of stable quality elementary schools, it's not unusual to have students that have been through three different schools by the time they take the CAS in third grade.  Those frequent jumps have a cumulative effect - not only on an individual child's learning, but also on the classrooms that get an ever changing population of kids.  It's not easy to track progress and see what's working and what's not when the cohort is completely different from one grade to the next.  [/quote]

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