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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I posted this before but allow me to try again: would 'Partner-School Option' have a chance to be successful? Match up one S school with one N school and let families choose or lottery which one to go to and bus both ways. I think two buses would probably do.[/quote]

really, who at Nottingham or Discovery is going to voluntarily ride a bus to Barcroft or Randolph? Families move to NA because they’ve decided “the schools” are worth the housing premium. [/quote]

It could help fill seats in under enrolled N school by pairing up one overcrowding S school, say, Discovery & Randolph, without changing multiple boundaries. And if it stays 'one directional' forever so be it. But it reaches the critical mass it can be successful in other aspects too.[/quote]

Isn't this simply a version of the old neighborhood transfer policy? [/quote]

Except that at some point APS ran the numbers and found that option school applications really were driven to some large degree by proximity. So it’s not written in stone with quotas, but if the lottery applicants are primarily walkers, that’s who the lottery winners will turn out to be, primarily, as well. Obviously that will be more true with a generalized option school like ATS and less true with a specialized option school like immersion. [/quote]

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