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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you screaming "busing," have you read the RFP? MCPS is looking for an analysis on the following:

-an assessment of the degree to which the current boundaries facilitate or impede equitable use of facilities across the system;
-an assessment of the degree to which the current boundaries facilitate or impede facility utilization in terms of program capacity and enrollment in schools;
-an assessment of the degree to which the current boundaries facilitate or impede striving to create a diverse student body population in each school; and 
-an assessment of the degree to which the current boundaries otherwise advance or inhibit the four factors in Policy FAA for consideration in boundaries:  student demographics, geography, stability of assignments over time, and facility utilization.

Diversity, student demographics is just [u]1[/u] area they are looking to see where it can be improved. [/quote]

The NEC and DCC were created to balance out demographics.  Now that [b]the three schools[/b] are majority minority, the goal has been met.  There is no need for choice in this case.

So . . . do we assume that the NEC and DCC schools (and other clusters that are majority minority) are now OK?

What about the schools in Bethesda and Potomac, which are majority white and Asian?  Do they remain the same, or do we now focus on FARMs distribution through another choice process - but one that affects the entire county?

Embedded in this this goal " . . . to create a diverse student body population in each school" is SES.  So do you keep poor kids together, or do you make it a goal to "disperse them" throughout the system into "better" schools?

I wish MCPS would define better . . . [/quote]

these schools, I meant, as the schools in the NEC and DCC are majority minority[/quote]

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