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This is 13:29. During the work session, Kevin Sneed (Facilities staff) said they'd been very mindful of not "significantly" changing the demographics at Jackson when moving part of Jackson to Thoreau.  However, he linked this to keeping the AAP center at Jackson.  I don't think they made their projections public, but I'm betting they just assumed the AAP kids at Thoreau would keep going to Jackson.  [/quote]

Kevin Sneed and his group were told several times during meetings that parents of AAP kids wanted to switch. I made it a point to tell them directly however there were also parents telling him this about individual children and even parents of Falls Church kids from schools like Fairhill asking to be moved to Thoreau. Plus they had started the center at Jackson for the specific reason of improving demographics at that school so it's no wonder that if you give options to dilute it and move those kids out of boundary they will most likely pick the weathier school.

School boundaries for poverty balancing isn't some difficult formula. Poverty is concentrated in small old single families and apartments. High achieving children are concentrated in AAP classes. Spread these kids and areas out in a way that kids are still within a reasonable drive to school and have at least 30% of the elementary going to middle and then 30% going onto high together and you have schools that are reasonably aligned as well as balanced. For areas that have zoning issues, work with the supervisors.[/quote]

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