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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I here ASFS families concerned that this change will swarm their school with new students since the dissolution of the team/making ASFS a neighborhood school will happen 1 year before the boundary changes are implemented.  That is not what will happen.  They have said that no students will be moved from their existing schools as a result of the new transfer/enrollment policy so ASFS is really only looking at the change impacting one year of kindergartners.  They will need to accommodate a larger K class for that year.  The next year the boundary changes will be effective for all the schools.  One thing that isn't clear to me -- will the boundary changes apply to all grades except 5th grade or only to new incoming students.  The latter is less disruptive to the school communities but will be much slower to fix the capacity problems.[/quote]

Boundary changes typically impact right away as opposed to phasing in.[/quote]

This will really suck.  My DC1 is starting K at Taylor this fall.  We live in Cherrydale, and I really, really hope we do not have to transfer to ASFS in 2019.[/quote]

I don't think this will happen. This boundary change is likely to be phased in since it does not coincide with a new school that needs to be filled immediately. To quote the superintendent, "If you're in, you're in." They'll probably allow families who want to move immediately, but I don't think they will force anyone. [/quote]

Part of the boundary shifts is because of a new school -- if they pull kids from Long Branch to add to the new TJ ES then that cascades further north.  They'll also be pulling more kids in the south into the Drew boundary to fill that school as Montessori moves out.  Maybe they could say south side school boundaries are immediate while north side are phased but that gets back to the whole inequitable thing.  I wouldn't count on it being phased in the north.[/quote]

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