It is true that for some students their first choice of school, based on geographical proximity, will be denied because other students' choices are granted in order to advance the overall interest in maintaining racially diverse school enrollments,

We had to randomly distribute the students overloaded in that school into their second choice. That's the 30 students or so who got their second choice.

Students forget they can use (the school of their choice) as a reference on how to write the essay.

The inception and kicking off of this unique program will provide students and parents with an extraordinary educational choice that could pay high learning and personal finance dividends.

You are overcharging students and their families. Some students will be deterred from going to school and it will increase the amount of debt this generation faces.

Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.