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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we make Reed an option school, where do we move kids from McKinley? Can we really push all of the excess at Glebe east?[/quote]

Rezone Tuckahoe, Nottingham, Discovery & Jamestown.  They can each take some and then they send some to the Reed Option.  Done...
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Nottingham is over capacity. Tuckahoe has about 20 extra seats, Discovery 30 and Jamestown 40, but McKinkey and Glebe are each more than 100 students over capacity. All of those schools already send kids to choice schools, you can’t force over 100 additional kids from just those schools into a choice program to make the numbers work.

If we’re going to turn any of those schools into a choice school, it makes sense to make it one of the lower-capacity schools, because it will leave the neighborhood schools less over capacity and doesn’t raise concerns about whether they can fill all 725 seats at the choice school. The lowest capacity schools in that area are Glebe (510), Nottingham (513) and Tuckahoe (545). Those are the schools it makes sense to look at as potential option schools. Obviously some of these make more sense than others, but these are your remotely realistic options for a choice school up there.[/quote]

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