Broadening Choice and Increasing Diversity in Public Schools

目前，大多数家庭仅限于他们所在地区的公立学校，这意味着他们可以负担得起的生活地区。这导致了社会经济和种族同质化的学校，并根深蒂固地处于不利地位，并剥夺了学生作为多样化学生群体的一部分所带来的关键的人生课程。该项目旨在研究一种整合集水区的公立学校学位分配模式。预期的结果将是一个给予家庭更广泛选择的制度，使他们能够在地区外的学校入学，同时确保分配保持公平、公平和平衡，并提供诸如实现学校内学生人口的期望水平的多样性等好处。

Currently, most families are limited to the public school in their catchment area, meaning the area in which they can afford to live. This leads to socio-economically and ethnically homogenous schools and entrenches disadvantage, as well as denying students the crucial life lessons that flow from being part of a diverse student body. This project aims to investigate a model for allocating public school places that integrates catchment areas. The expected outcome would be a system that gives families a wider choice, enabling them to enrol in out-of-area schools, while ensuring that allocations remain fair, equitable and balanced, and also delivering benefits such as achieving a desired level of diversity in student populations within schools