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Tucson Region

TUSD to hold forums on enrollment

Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 09.09.2007
The city's largest school district has scheduled two community forums to discuss recent changes in enrollment policies.
Officials with the Tucson Unified School District will host the forums to discuss the status of the district's decades-old desegregation order, plans for new attendance boundaries, recent and future changes in enrollment procedures, and expanding student choices for magnet and other focus programs.
The federal judge overseeing TUSD's desegregation order filed paperwork last month saying TUSD's longstanding policy of not allowing students to transfer from their home schools unless the moves improved the racial makeup of the receiving schools was unconstitutional. TUSD's board then voted to allow students to apply to attend other schools.