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Policy committee approves removing proximity preference from district lottery policy
Summary
The school board policy committee voted unanimously to delete a sentence that would have given geographic proximity preference in magnet-school lotteries for two elementary schools, making Eaton and Coddington straight lotteries after sibling/employee priorities are applied.
The school board policy committee voted 3-0 to forward a revised student assignment policy that removes language giving geographic proximity a weighted preference in the lottery process for certain magnet schools. The committee vote sends Policy 41-50 to the full board in September.
The change removes the clause “save the students' geographic proximity to the school” from the student-assignment plan’s description of lottery weights. Committee members said the revision makes Eaton and Coddington operate as straight lotteries once sibling…
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