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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How are we implementing new regional magnets by high school around the same time we’re changing the boundaries for some high school clusters? Shouldn’t the boundaries be finalized before we divvy up magnet regions by high school? Changing boundaries, high school programs, and grading policies all within a relatively short time frame will make it impossible to discern the impact of any one of these changes.

Is there a reason why we are we creating more magnets instead of taking a more measured approach, like expanding seats at current magnets or offering a few magnet courses at other high schools before rolling out the entire magnet curriculum?

This feels like a frenetic, “let’s throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks” kind of shakeup rather than a well thought out, multistep, long range plan.[/quote]

Because if you're adding or subtracting programs that draw kids from outside school boundaries, that affects school utilization.  I agree this feels rushed, but they're right that now is the right time to do it, it's just that they should have started sooner.  It doesn't make any sense to redraw boundaries in 2027 and then a year later decide where you should add and remove regional programs but it turns out there's not enough space for the places you want to put them.  Likewise, if you work hard contorting boundaries to get your goal utilization at a school with programs but then those programs go away, that doesn't make sense either

(Plus I suspect the expansion of regional program options is also supposed to be a consolation to DCC and NEC families losing their consortium choices ..)[/quote]

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