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Committee reviews Manchester school choice options and MST admissions process
Summary
Assistant Superintendent Randstad outlined Manchester School District policies for school assignment and the manifest educational hardship process, and the principal of Manchester School of Technology described the MST application deadline and lottery for oversubscribed classes.
The Legislation & Education Committee on Jan. 15 discussed school assignment policy in Manchester and how families may request placement outside geographic attendance zones.
Assistant Superintendent Randstad said Manchester does not operate an open school-choice system: assignments are "based on geographic and address-based location." Randstad described the district's manifest educational hardship policy (Policy 104) as the primary route for families seeking assignment to a school outside their attendance zone and said that requests must…
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