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Board tables school-assignment changes after debate over weighted lottery and rubric for specialized schools
Summary
The board tabled proposed changes to school-assignment policy 4150 to the August policy meeting after members debated removing a weighted lottery for year-round and cooperative high schools and requested the superintendent’s rubric and data.
At the July 15 policy committee meeting, members voted to table school-assignment policy 4150 until the August policy meeting after an hour of discussion about whether the district must use state criteria to prioritize applications for cooperative innovative high schools and year-round programs.
The committee’s discussion contrasted two approaches: a state-influenced, criterion-based rubric that awards points for risk indicators (used by the district’s cooperative high schools) and a desire by some members to remove a weighted lottery for certain…
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