Crosstown neighborhood school

Star Tribune Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:29:19 GMT
Edina seeks to balance diverse student body, crowding

carcely two months after residents raised a ruckus over class sizes they said were too big because of students from outside the district, one of the state's most prominent school districts is tweaking its open-enrollment policies. During a sparsely attended Edina school board meeting this week, the board approved on first reading a revised nonresident enrollment policy that omits the following language: "minority nonresident students will be encouraged to attend Edina Public Schools in order to achieve a more diverse student body." Instead, school officials gave preliminary approval to language in another policy that outlines Edina's desire to "maintain a diverse student population" through state choice options such as open enrollment. ... Currently, more than 15 percent, or about 1,200 of Edina's more than 7,700 students, live outside the district, school officials said. Edina's nonresident population rose from about 8 percent of its total student population in 2001 to more than 14 percent in 2007, according to the Minnesota Department of Education.

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