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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I think you can equalize with all schools, or at least with W-L for 35% or so each, but balancing with Yorktown will always be the hardest, because once you get north of Lee Highway, the FLR drops to under 2% and all these students have to go somewhere. - in the past that's been Yorktown.    But I agree, that it COULD be balanced much better, than what we have now.[/quote]

This is where the MS boundary argument broke down last fall.  Some scenarios would have increased bussing across only parts of the county in order to improve the demographic balance, but APS was not going to full-on make everyone bus to achieve that end.  The end result was partly a result of the need to apply the criteria to everyone fairly.

If you're going to make it a priority to move kids around and increase bus requirements for the prime goal of diversifying then you cannot reasonably leave untouched the whitest and wealthiest portion of the county.  I don't think that will ever happen in Arlington.[/quote]

Transit subsidies and a few extra special ART buses might go a long way to helping with that, since APS has a hard time recruiting and retaining bus drivers.

I suspect that the fear concerning full out busing is that it will trigger flight and a loss of tax revenue. Still, something needs to change.

The goal should be equitable seats for all and getting rid of this idea that you "bought into" a certain school. It would certainly be more affordable to spread out students or even build a whole 4th school on a current high school lot, save for logistics.
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