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To give you another example, within my city there are 5 high schools and their rankings are vastly different. Students can only go the high school within their
by pkaye 12y ago
To give you another example, within my city there are 5 high schools and their rankings are vastly different. Students can only go the high school within their district of the city. Thus the housing prices are vastly different between the districts by 2x in some cases. Note that all the schools get the same funding. It is just that the parents wanting high achievement for their students put them in the better performing high school making the imbalance even worse and and the same time causing a housing imbalance.
- markvdb 12y agoSo even people paying taxes _to the same city_ can't go to this city's public school of their liking? Is this a US wide policy, or is that decided on a city level?
- pkaye 12y agoI know it is generally true in California. And their intention is to balance out the attendance to the various schools. And it was not always bad like this. I feel it became worse when a state wide test ranking system was created then people knew which schools were better performing and started flocking towards them so things got imbalanced.