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Mill Valley board keeps current student-placement priorities, hears parents’ complaints about process
Summary
After a presentation from district leaders, the board kept existing open-enrollment priorities and heard public commenters urge retention of waitlists and neighborhood placement; a parent accused a district official of misleading families during the 2024–25 placement cycle.
The Mill Valley School Board on Nov. 14 received an information-only update on student enrollment and placement and said it would continue using the district’s existing priorities for placement while awaiting demographic study results. Dr. Kaufmann and Director Kate Sprague explained that placements will continue to follow special-education needs, programmatic placement (for example, high-school programs), siblings, children of district employees, parent preference (ranked choices) and proximity.
The presentation said the district expects to open enrollment in January, with a first-round closing in February, and that TK and kindergarten class openings will depend on demand; parent outreach events were scheduled for Dec. 5 to…
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