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Competing for Kids |
A series of reports examining school choice in Mid-Michigan. Produced and reported by WKAR's Erin Toner, Linda Stephan, and Rob South.
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Competing for Kids: Part 4: Choosing The Suburbs
WKAR's Rob South examines how school choice programs affect suburban districts. As the numbers indicate, many students who leave the Lansing School District are enrolling in suburban districts. But while outlying districts are seeing more choice students each year, those numbers are often balanced out by a decrease in the number of school-age children within the district.
South reports that the reasons parents send their kids to outlying districts vary, as does the way those districts respond. Included are interviews with Dave Chapin, superintendent of East Lansing Public Schools, Tom Davis, superintendent of Holt Public Schools, and Sandy Enness, parent of Okemos High School student Emma Enness.
aired Mar. 24, 2005 | length: 04:34
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Holt High School is one of the Lansing-area's biggest winners when it comes to schools of choice. Holt has 650 students from outside its district. About 80 percent of them live in the Lansing Public School District.
Photo: Rob South
About 700 Schools of Choice kids make up East Lansing Public Schools -- 20% of the student body.
Photo: Rob South
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