Sep 12, 2014
A week before the first day of school, Mayor Vincent Gray adopted new school boundaries for the 2015-2016 school year.
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A week before the first day of school, Mayor Vincent Gray adopted new school boundaries for the 2015-2016 school year.
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Sioux Falls won't use new school boundaries to mix rich and poor kids
About a month ago, the Sioux Falls School Board was shown the administration’s priorities for redrawing school attendance boundary lines, made necessary by the coming Longfellow/Mark Twain consolidation, Jefferson closure and new George McGovern MS.
There are five priorities. I was surprised, perhaps, that balancing the socioeconomic makeup of the schools was not one of them. I figured the administration would try to get a mix of rich and poor kids and some racial diversity wherever possible.
“No, and it never has been,” Superintendent Pam Homan told me.
She said that would conflict with their fourth priority, which is to keep natural borders, such as major roadways, as school boundaries. “We look at it as neighborhood cohorts.”
She added later that typically, a school district might look at each school’s demographics if it’s reconfiguring boundaries for the entire school district. But what the school board is doing this fall is a more limited redraw, in the central and west part of the district and only for elementary and middle school boundaries.