Boston adopts new plan for assigning students to schools

March 14, 2013
New method aims to allow students to attend schools closer to home.

The Boston school system is doing away with a school assignment plan developed in the 1980s under court-ordered desegregation and will use a new method that is designed to allow more students to attend schools closer to home. The Boston Globe says that starting in fall 2014, the city will use a computer algorithm to generate a list of at least six schools from which parents will be able to choose based on several factors, such as distance from school, school capacity, and test scores.

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