As Boston school officials propose new ways to assign students to schools, an analysis last week by a Harvard professor suggests that the plans are less fair than the current system and would make it even harder for students in the poorest neighborhoods to get into the city’s best schools.
The report suggested that although students who live in different parts of Boston now have unequal access to the city’s best schools, the proposals would increase that inequity and at least one would create new school zones without any high-quality schools.
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To add to this mess the Poverty Pimps are out on the stroll to create more Segregation Academy charter schools in Boston: City on the Hill FY2013, Match 2 FY2013, UP Academy FY2013, and Edward Brooke 4 FY2014!
To date the BPS assignment plan has no "Grandfather Clause", if 30,000+ students are on the march, the current data used to decide if a school is "high quality" or not, is void. The children are the data, not the school building they are housed in!
You mean the kids are the school-it's so simple! : )