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Board weighs 'priority zone' approach for magnet middle schools amid MSAP concerns
Summary
Rezoning staff proposed school-by-school preferred-priority geozones (not hard attendance boundaries) to increase magnet access and preserve diversity; board members asked for more data on choice/marketing, MSAP grant commitments and Title I impacts before moving to final decisions.
District planners presented a comprehensive middle-school rezoning update on March 10, recommending a cautious, school-by-school approach to create preferred priority geozones for magnet schools rather than converting magnets to hard attendance boundaries.
Presenters showed maps for Bartow/Union and Jewett/Denison/Westwood and explained how service-area overlaps could create isolated "island" zones and affect utilization and concurrency seats. Staff…
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