"The Boston School Committee tonight scrapped a school assignment plan developed under court-ordered desegregation almost a quarter century ago and approved a system that seeks to allow more students to attend schools closer to home.
Starting in fall 2014, the School Department will do away with three massive student-assignment zones, which it has operated since 1989.
Instead, a complex algorithm will generate a list of schools from which parents could choose based on a variety of factors, such as distance from school, school capacity, and MCAS performance. Parents will receive at least six school choices, including a minimum of four of medium or high-quality.
The committee also voted to do away with the so-called walk preference for schools."
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As far as I can tell from a distance, I believe that preferences will still be processed according to the deferred acceptance algorithm my colleagues and I helped a previous school committee to adopt...
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Update: here's the story in Boston Magazine: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/03/14/a-chinese-mit-grad-student-designed-the-new-school-choice-system/
Update: here's the story in Boston Magazine: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/03/14/a-chinese-mit-grad-student-designed-the-new-school-choice-system/
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