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Look for a piece on school choice at 22:40.

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Real issues, hard choices in school zoning reform

Dorchester Reporter

The current Boston school assignment plan which buses students long distances in 3 zones is unsustainable. From this educator’s perspective, Boston city leaders need to craft a plan which remedies the following daily problems.

Too many students are spending over 90 minutes each day on buses. (Imagine this with young children and those with complex disabilities.) Too many students are starting instruction well after 9:25 a.m., squandering some of the best time in a child’s day and inconveniencing parents. Too many students are not able to stay and benefit from extended day enrichment programs.

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MIT plan on schools gets close look by parents’ panel

Dorchester Reporter

A team of current and former Boston parents is wading through possible ways to overhaul the city’s student assignment overhaul, including a proposal from a doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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MIT has plan for Boston school assignments

Boston Globe

A new proposal for Boston school assignments presented Saturday by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology doctoral student was essentially pushed to front-runner status by an advisory committee, as five other proposals began to fall off the table, just one month after they were unveiled.

The External Advisory Committee, appointed by the mayor, heard a presentation on the MIT proposal for the first time during a meeting Saturday morning at City Hall. Several members said it showed the greatest potential of providing equitable access to the city’s limited number of quality schools, as the panel seeks to create a student-assignment system that allows more students to attend schools closer to their homes.…

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A bid for equity in school choice plan

Boston Globe

An advisory committee, racing to meet a November deadline to recommend a new student-assignment system for Boston, is weighing whether to give low-income students a priority to attend better-performing schools in other neighborhoods, a potentially divisive move that could address inequities but also take away seats from more affluent applicants who live nearby.

The External Advisory Committee , appointed by the mayor, will meet Saturday morning at City Hall to hear a presentation on one potential method for providing more options to students living in neighborhoods that are dominated by low-performing schools and tend to have high poverty rates.

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