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Committee asks administration to study sibling/local priority for near‑capacity elementary and middle schools
Summary
A motion to ask the administration to examine allowing students priority enrollment at neighborhood schools with capacity under 105% passed Sept. 3. Members said the change could help families with transportation hardships but raised concerns about desegregation and capacity limits.
The Lowell School Committee voted Sept. 3 to ask the superintendent to study whether students should receive enrollment priority at K–8 schools that are operating under 105% capacity when families face documented hardships.
Mister Bahu introduced the motion, seconded by Mister Lay, saying the goal was to address individual family hardships — for example, a parent who cannot reasonably transport children to two different schools because of work hours or distance. "She's a woman with 4 children ... she lives about 3 quarters of a mile from the Wang School," Bahu said, describing callers who cannot manage the district’s current…
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