Team Experience

In order to benchmark against other large urban districts, members of our team studied:

• Buffalo, New York,

• Cambridge, Massachusetts,

• Boston, Massachusetts,

• Rochester, New York

• New York City, and

• Oakland, California.

We learned both what was going well, and what those districts wished they had done differently during their annual recruitment and registration cycles. During this time, the Supreme Court made a major ruling on School Choice, causing public school districts to evaluate our current plans and revise in order to meet new requirements. We worked with outside consultants and inside stakeholders, especially including parents in our improvement dialogues.

Dr. Capezzuto’s doctoral dissertation reviewed the history of School Choice, and some of the effects of one School Choice program in a large, high-poverty urban district. Charter schools then entered the picture, offering even more choices to families.

We used what we learned to build a smooth-functioning team working in a high-visibility environment. Every aspect of our work went into annual Board reports, addressing the entire process from recruitment to registration to retention. We managed four simultaneous, year-round recruitment sites and over 20,000 transactions a year: new registrations, returning students, terminal grade transfers (e.g. from elementary to middle school), changes in Special Education programs requiring transfers, disciplinary hearing transfers, and voluntary transfers.

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