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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I'm just confused how this will work:

Lets assume High School A currently has 2,000 kids.  
Let's just assume for sake of argument they would all want to stay at High School A.  Now let's assume that 400 kids from other schools apply to be in the regional program at High School A.

What happens?  Are 400 kids from High School A moved to other schools, even though their home school is their first pick?   Is there a priority for staying in your neighborhood school?

I'm trying to figure out if this is like the NYC model, where kids have to apply for basically any school and most kids are not at all guaranteed to go to the school closest to their home.  Everyone seems to hate that system.

Or is it more like the current magnet system, where you always have a spot at your home school but there's an option to apply for a program at another school if you want.[/quote]

No, it's basically like the current magnet system.  You are assigned to your home school unless you apply for and accept a spot at a different school.  So in your scenario, if everyone from school A stays at school A and they also host programs with a capacity of 400, the school would just be overcapacity or they might choose to shrink that program or move it to another school to address the capacity issues.[/quote]

This is exactly why they predict Einstein will be at 155% capacity due to the popularity of the programs that will be offered at that school. Silvestre specifically asked Taylor about this at the work session on Tuesday, 3/3[/quote]

Einstein needs the numbers as if they lose staff there is no way to make Einstein work as academics are limited.  Kids from w schools and bcc are not going to choose Einstein if they want strong academics.  Theater and fine arts, maybe.   [/quote]

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