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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is precisely the aggressive response as evidenced in this thread to the idea that Takoma Park, Kensington and Garrett Park were identified as being part of the problem vis-a-vis racial disparities is why the BOE dropped the issue so fast.[/quote]

The thing is that they weren't. The report has a list of the schools with the most disparities compared to their neighbors and those schools were not listed.

From the report: "Aside from Sligo Creek ES, the other elementary schools with the highest socioeconomic dissimilarity to their three nearest schools include Laytonsville ES (Damascus Cluster), Forest Knolls ES (Downcounty Consortium), Kemp Mill ES (Downcounty Consortium), and Strawberry Knoll ES (Gaithersburg cluster). Of these top five most dissimilar schools, three are a part of the Downcounty Consortium."

No one is disputing that TPES/PBES have a lower FARMS rate than neighboring schools. But that's not a matter for the boundary study because the "problem" isn't school boundaries - it is housing. Takoma Park has more SFHs than East Silver Spring or Langley Park, correlating to more wealth. That's not something the boundary study can rectify while maintaining the other factors. [/quote]

+1. TPES/PBES, RTES, and ESS all have sensible neighborhood walk zones which would not be subject to rezoning anyway, so there would only be the possibility of a little wiggle room around the edges. As several PPs have already pointed out, the report specifically highlighted several other schools (none of which were in TKPK) as the most able to be made more socio-economically similar via new boundaries.[/quote]

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