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Abstract: The assignment of students to schools is often a controversial process that requires a delicate balance between operational needs (school capacity and costs) and student and community needs (quality of school and community cohesion). In 2016, Boston Public Schools (BPS) implemented a new student assignment process that attempts to balance both operational needs and students’ access to quality schools. This case examines BPS’ new student assignment process and considers whether it satisfies both sets of needs. The case also provides a simplified spreadsheet assignment model and dataset to allow students to see the tradeoffs and how they can be balanced. Learning Objective: The learning goals are: 1. Understanding school assignment models used in various jurisdictions. 2. Identifying the tradeoffs inherent in the assignment process. (In this case student assignment to schools, but the concept is generalizable.) 3. Enumerating the criteria for evaluation of tradeoffs. 4. Illustrating the tradeoffs with a spreadsheet-based simulation model.

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The assignment of students to schools is often a controversial process that requires a delicate balance between operational needs (school capacity and costs) and student and community needs (quality of school and community cohesion). In 2016, Boston Public Schools (BPS) implemented a new student assignment process that attempts to balance both operational needs and students' access to quality schools. This case examines BPS' new student assignment process and considers whether it satisfies both sets of needs. The case also provides a simplified spreadsheet assignment model and dataset to allow students to see the tradeoffs and how they can be balanced.

Learning Objectives

The learning goals are:

Understanding school assignment models used in various jurisdictions.

Identifying the tradeoffs inherent in the assignment process. (In this case student assignment to schools, but the concept is generalizable.)

Enumerating the criteria for evaluation of tradeoffs.

Illustrating the tradeoffs with a spreadsheet-based simulation model.

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• Understand how BPS assigns students to its schools. Your child is not guaranteed a “neighborhood” school. BPS uses a Home-Based Assignment Policy (HBAP) that factors distance from the school, school quality, and sibling preference into the school options available to your child. 
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Abdulkadiroglu, Pathak, Roth, and Sonmez study the Boston Public Schools (BPS) system for assigning students to schools in response to a Globe article which highlighted the difficulties that Boston’s system may give parents in strategizing during the application process.  They describe the difficulties of the Boston mechanism and explore possible replacement mechanisms.

School choice in Boston has been partly shaped by desegregation. In 1974, Judge W. Arthur Garrity ordered busing for racial balance.  In 1987, the U.S. Court of Appeals freed BPS to adopt a new, choice-based assignment plan. In 1999 BPS eliminated racial preferences in assignment and adopted a new mechanism. The design tried to give students their first choice school.  However, a student who fails to get her first choice may find her later choices filled by students who chose them first. Thus, there is a risk in ranking a school first if there is a chance of not being admitted; other schools that would have been possible had they been listed first may also be filled.

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Four years ago, Boston Public Schools began using a computerized school assignment system. The algorithm was intended to reduce segregation in the city's school system, and give more minority students access to higher quality schools. But a report released earlier this week found that didn't happen.

The report, conducted by the Boston Area Research Initiative, found that Boston's algorithm for assigning students to schools is restricting access to high-quality schools for many minority students, and that high-quality schools are disproportionately grouped in the city's historically white neighborhoods. The findings are reflective of the racial and socioeconomic segregation evident in the city's geography.

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• The geographic distribution of BPS students of different races:

3. The location, tier level and capacity of all 6th grades in Boston:

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Kevin Murray , member of parent organization Quality Education for Every Student (QUEST).

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On what the report's findings mean to parents

Kevin Murray: "The extremes were somewhat surprising, even for us. And my reading of the report is that there are ways in which this new system has made things ... noticeably worse. Part of the report talks about the increasing segregation at the kindergarten and early grade level in certain neighborhoods of the city. This is a very concerning trend, because those trends will move through the system. As those kindergartners become second, third and fourth graders, those classes are not going to become more diverse. They're going to continue to be as segregated or more segregated as they as kindergartners."

On how Boston's existing segregation contributes to education inequality

Dan O'Brien:  "The city is de facto segregated, so if you're going to have people going to school closer to home, you're inevitably going to start to separate by race, by socioeconomic status across schools. And I think there has to be a really serious conversation among the Boston Public School community; what is the balance there? Because we also know parents do — and during the process that was spoken about in 2012, parents said "We want to go closer to home, we don't want to get bused across the city, that's not necessarily always equivalent to quality for us."

On how to improve school assignment in Boston 

KM: The MIT people that put together this algorithm were very clear: There is no technical barrier to equitable assignment system. We can create a system in which every student, whether they're in Mattapan or the North End, has equal access to the quality seats that exist. That's a mathematical problem, and one thing MIT people and Northeastern people can do is solve those mathematical problems. The question was, is the city of Boston ready to address the political challenges, the social challenges that that implies.

The assumption is that families like mine are going to withdraw from the system if everybody has equal access to the good seats. That's never been tested. I know hundreds of families that would not withdraw in the face of an equitable system — there probably are some that would. But I think we need to flip this thing and call our system an equity-based school assignment system, and follow that name where it takes us.

DO: " Scholars, data technicians and scientists like those at BARI and other places, we can try to build a more equitable algorithm and we made recommendations on how to do that, but I think the other problem is ... the inequitable distribution of quality schools across the geography of the city. If people would like to go to school closer to home and they're giving them a trade-off there, giving them access to a great school that's two miles away might not be attractive ... we need to be having those two conversations simultaneously, rather than just arguing about the policy on one end and the quality on the other end, they go hand-in-hand."

This segment aired on July 19, 2018.

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Several dozen students from Boston Public Schools rallied on City Hall Plaza Tuesday to make their needs heard by Mayor Michelle Wu.

In a letter addressed to the mayor, students wrote that, “For years, BPS students have had trouble learning in an unhealthy environment without enough resources, investment, and support.”

Simone Frederick said that at Boston Latin Academy, where she is a senior, there are issues with the school’s basic physical condition.

“Some parts of the building are really deteriorating,” Frederick said. “If we had those issues fixed, people would have a better environment to learn and to teach in.”

The letter included a list of demands that include: physical upgrades, such as fixing walls, making bathrooms accessible for students with disabilities and clean water; making schools more sustainably powered; and increasing access to spaces that include libraries, gyms and science labs.

Osasenaga Famous, a senior at the John D. O’Bryant School, said her school’s HVAC system affects her time in the classroom.

“It’s always too cold or too hot,” she said. “Today, I went here for second period and it was too cold in that classroom, so I needed to take a break. So I just went out in the hallway and then I went back in, just to take a break.”

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George Alves, a 2022 graduate of City on a Hill Charter School, said he faced similar frustrations at the independently run school.

“The classrooms would be hot ... the water fountains were always out of date, the water would come out dirty,” Aves said. “Students can’t focus under those conditions,” he added.

The list of demands also includes educational changes, with calls for more diversity in the school curriculum and hiring more educators of color.

BPS did not immediately return a request for comment.

Liam Quinn, youth programs director for the Massachusetts Coalition of Occupational Safety and Health, has been working with BPS students on their demands since November.

“The students are kind of united with teachers in advocating for the district to do better about retaining, hiring and recruiting teachers of color and making sure they feel supported in staying on at BPS in the long run,” Quinn told GBH News.

Students’ chants — including “New rules, clean schools” and “Hey hey, ho ho, racist schools have got to go” — couldn’t be heard in person by Wu, who is abroad ahead of attending a climate summit at the Vatican.

“We’re here to kind let the mayor know her constituents are frustrated about BPS, and they want to be let into the room where those decisions are being made,” Quinn said. “And for too long they’ve been kept out.”

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The Unique Burial of a Child of Early Scythian Time at the Cemetery of Saryg-Bulun (Tuva)

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In 1988, the Tuvan Archaeological Expedition (led by M. E. Kilunovskaya and V. A. Semenov) discovered a unique burial of the early Iron Age at Saryg-Bulun in Central Tuva. There are two burial mounds of the Aldy-Bel culture dated by 7th century BC. Within the barrows, which adjoined one another, forming a figure-of-eight, there were discovered 7 burials, from which a representative collection of artifacts was recovered. Burial 5 was the most unique, it was found in a coffin made of a larch trunk, with a tightly closed lid. Due to the preservative properties of larch and lack of air access, the coffin contained a well-preserved mummy of a child with an accompanying set of grave goods. The interred individual retained the skin on his face and had a leather headdress painted with red pigment and a coat, sewn from jerboa fur. The coat was belted with a leather belt with bronze ornaments and buckles. Besides that, a leather quiver with arrows with the shafts decorated with painted ornaments, fully preserved battle pick and a bow were buried in the coffin. Unexpectedly, the full-genomic analysis, showed that the individual was female. This fact opens a new aspect in the study of the social history of the Scythian society and perhaps brings us back to the myth of the Amazons, discussed by Herodotus. Of course, this discovery is unique in its preservation for the Scythian culture of Tuva and requires careful study and conservation.

Keywords: Tuva, Early Iron Age, early Scythian period, Aldy-Bel culture, barrow, burial in the coffin, mummy, full genome sequencing, aDNA

Information about authors: Marina Kilunovskaya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Vladimir Semenov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Varvara Busova  (Moscow, Russian Federation).  (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Kharis Mustafin  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Technical Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Irina Alborova  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Alina Matzvai  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected]

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Zvenigorod's most famous sight is the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, which was founded in 1398 by the monk Savva from the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, at the invitation and with the support of Prince Yury Dmitrievich of Zvenigorod. Savva was later canonised as St Sabbas (Savva) of Storozhev. The monastery late flourished under the reign of Tsar Alexis, who chose the monastery as his family church and often went on pilgrimage there and made lots of donations to it. Most of the monastery’s buildings date from this time. The monastery is heavily fortified with thick walls and six towers, the most impressive of which is the Krasny Tower which also serves as the eastern entrance. The monastery was closed in 1918 and only reopened in 1995. In 1998 Patriarch Alexius II took part in a service to return the relics of St Sabbas to the monastery. Today the monastery has the status of a stauropegic monastery, which is second in status to a lavra. In addition to being a working monastery, it also holds the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum.

Belfry and Neighbouring Churches

Located near the main entrance is the monastery's belfry which is perhaps the calling card of the monastery due to its uniqueness. It was built in the 1650s and the St Sergius of Radonezh’s Church was opened on the middle tier in the mid-17th century, although it was originally dedicated to the Trinity. The belfry's 35-tonne Great Bladgovestny Bell fell in 1941 and was only restored and returned in 2003. Attached to the belfry is a large refectory and the Transfiguration Church, both of which were built on the orders of Tsar Alexis in the 1650s.  

To the left of the belfry is another, smaller, refectory which is attached to the Trinity Gate-Church, which was also constructed in the 1650s on the orders of Tsar Alexis who made it his own family church. The church is elaborately decorated with colourful trims and underneath the archway is a beautiful 19th century fresco.

Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is the oldest building in the monastery and among the oldest buildings in the Moscow Region. It was built between 1404 and 1405 during the lifetime of St Sabbas and using the funds of Prince Yury of Zvenigorod. The white-stone cathedral is a standard four-pillar design with a single golden dome. After the death of St Sabbas he was interred in the cathedral and a new altar dedicated to him was added.

Under the reign of Tsar Alexis the cathedral was decorated with frescoes by Stepan Ryazanets, some of which remain today. Tsar Alexis also presented the cathedral with a five-tier iconostasis, the top row of icons have been preserved.

Tsaritsa's Chambers

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is located between the Tsaritsa's Chambers of the left and the Palace of Tsar Alexis on the right. The Tsaritsa's Chambers were built in the mid-17th century for the wife of Tsar Alexey - Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna Miloskavskaya. The design of the building is influenced by the ancient Russian architectural style. Is prettier than the Tsar's chambers opposite, being red in colour with elaborately decorated window frames and entrance.

At present the Tsaritsa's Chambers houses the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum. Among its displays is an accurate recreation of the interior of a noble lady's chambers including furniture, decorations and a decorated tiled oven, and an exhibition on the history of Zvenigorod and the monastery.

Palace of Tsar Alexis

The Palace of Tsar Alexis was built in the 1650s and is now one of the best surviving examples of non-religious architecture of that era. It was built especially for Tsar Alexis who often visited the monastery on religious pilgrimages. Its most striking feature is its pretty row of nine chimney spouts which resemble towers.

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