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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've always been confused by how -- beyond bringing up average test scores -- the magnets have spillover effects on the school.  This is pertinent for the current dialogues on placing new 'magnets'/programs at all schools.  What are these spillovers, if any?  [/quote]

It's most notable at lower-resourced schools to start with, places that otherwise don't have a large enough cohort of students to run many advanced classes.  Bringing in dozens or hundreds more advanced kids creates much more demand for those classes-- not necessarily the magnet classes themselves, but just the suite of advanced classes that richer schools offer as standard but many middle and high-FARMS schools do not.  (There can also be benefits around things like what extracurriculars are available, etc.)

The regional program plan also raises the stakes on this because when there are like 3-4 academic magnets per region, the schools without them are likely to lose many more advanced students to magnets than they do today without getting many or any back in return[b], meaning that any non-rich school not getting an academic magnet is likely to actively decrease the offerings at that school.  [/b][/quote]

+1000

And it will hurt the kids left behind who will be disproportionately BIPOC and kids from families with lower incomes because they are precisely the people that will struggle with the commute.[/quote]

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