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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not move Immersion to way under capacity Williamsburg?  Any other boundary change nukes walk zones and escalates busing costs and bus ride times for almost all schools. [/quote]

The transportation study said that moving immersion to Williamsburg would have negative impacts on transportation, so maybe that is why? I think the choices are between TJ and Kenmore.  But also Williamsburg doesn't have very many spanish speaking families surrounding it and that is one of the reasons for the move. [/quote]

A-130 of the pre CIP report shows that Williamsburg would require the same number of buses for the immersion students only. That doesn’t even take into consideration additional buses for student moved from Swanson and Hamm walk zones to Williamsburg to accommodate Immersion at Kenmore. That along with moving high income units out of Kenmore makes me think that moving the program to Williamsburg is best for the district as a whole, even though it’s suboptimal for Immersion. The question is whether APS is going to continue to prioritize special optional programs over the general population. [/quote]

How would you define “special optional programs”?  There are potentially a lot of things beyond immersion that fall under the “special optional programs” umbrella.[/quote]

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