Leave school choice mistakes behind

Published October 7, 2007

As Pinellas School Board members begin public hearings this week on a new student assignment plan, some of them are suffering a bout of amnesia. The reason they spent the past two years crafting a different way of assigning students is that the current choice plan, adopted seven years ago over the strenuous objections of parents, was broken from the start. By every broad measure, the proposed new plan is better.

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