Community School Board Resolutions

iteration of the key principals to the district admissions policy,
that include:

parents and kids choose schools (and not the other way around)

valuing diversity

preference to siblings and district residents

The community school board passed a resolution to amend the schools of choice admission policy to include additional criteria for selection in oversubscribed schools, such as economic status and linguistic ability. The Central Board never approved the resolution due to objections and stonewalling by the BoE General Counsel. The school boards were dissolved as a component of mayoral control shortly thereafter.

The old school board resolution that was approved by the BOE Central Board in 1994 thus setting district admissions policy and procedures.