School Committee readies for April 9 vote on geography-based enrollment
The Acton-Boxborough School Committee’s historic vote on January 22 to move to a geography-based school assignment model for elementary families overturned a longstanding practice in place since 1972 that assigned students to an elementary school based on families’ rankings of preferred schools (“open enrollment”). The vote to discontinue the practice of open enrollment addressed a number of longstanding concerns about the role this model has played in breeding competition between elementary schools in order to attract families and in creating significant demographic imbalances along socio-economic, racial, and ethnic lines that seemed at odds with the district’s commitment to DEI practices.…
