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...Because of the increase and the need to maintain socioeconomic balance, many paid lunch families would not have been able to receive one of their top choices—or for some, even a spot...
...order to increase the number of paid lunch students placed in one of their choices, the School Committee considered two solutions...
...first option was to change the target for paid lunch from 55 percent to 66 percent, which is more in line with the status of families who applied for kindergarten in January. But they rejected this option fearing that it was regressive...
...Willie proposed that another option would be to base the target for paid lunch students on the previous year’s enrollment—not on an average of the previous nine years as the district currently does—allowing the schools to choose a percentage more in line with recent demographic trends...
...Willie said he believes that using student enrollment data from the previous nine years to determine the paid lunch target percent is too inflexible, and that looking only at the previous year’s students “is the safest, soundest and fairest way of doing things...