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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish I had a way of overlaying the demographics and the proximity maps on top of each other.  I think they intentionally find the stupidest map they can create for demographics just to make people see how ridiculous boundaries would be if we consider diversity.

Someone who has a better visualization ability than I do:  what would things look like if we concocted a mash-up of proximity and diversity?
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You don't need a mapping program or spatial analysis to do this. Low income students are highly, highly concentrated in specific planning units. Basically, the Pike west of Glebe needs to be cracked across as many schools as possible so that SFH have a prayer of kinda balancing out AH at each school. Unfortunately it's a matter of busing apartment dwellers out because, I'm pretty sure, they vastly outnumber kids in SFH. It's a little different t than busing in the 70s and 80, because Nauck is largely a neighborhood of SFH and duplexes, then and now. We could have bused white kids in but that was a political no go, then as now too. Can't really bus kids into Randolph and Barcroft and Drew and carlin that aren't already zoned there, there just aren't enough.[/quote]

There are more than 100 UMC kids in the Fairlington unit across 395.  It is already a bused unit- so not a walk zone issue.  Move it to drew making room for Columbia Forest at Abingdon.  It would make a dramatic difference.[/quote]
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In addition to moving the two Henry PUs?  What does "dramatic difference" look like?  70%? 65%  What's our goal?[/quote]

It brings Drew to about 50% FARMS, and keeps Abingdon at 50% FARMS.      I would leave Henry PU alone.   It improves Alingment b/c then Drew feeds to Gunston and Jefferson and not also to Kenmore.  It improves contiguity and I would think efficiency.  Its a short straight shot from that part of Fairlington to Drew.  In order to keep contiguity it does require moving 36091 to Drew as well, which is arguibly in the Abindgon walk zone.  But this is a tiny planning unit of downtown Shirlington.  APS says it has 7 students.  I honestly don't see how it has any b/c I don't think there is any residential housing there.  Either way 7 additional bused students is not going to make a financial difference to the bus system.  
It means that Columbia Forest, which has historically been at Abingdon can continue to go there.  It also has the advantage that those PUs have not then been touched so that if something happens in 2021 with Carlin Springs going option, etc- they can still be moved as needed.   [/quote]

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