Linda Lerner fretted. That is correct. The parents of every student enrolled when this begins in 2003 could ask to be guaranteed a seat in their current school, and the middle and high schools they would attend down the road. The first crop of kids wouldn't be affected until . . . Future parents are covered.
Current parents get to opt out.
The School Board gets political cover. Except . . . The whole thing could even end up back in federal court. The irony here is that some kind of choice plan might work reasonably well. That is some plan, if the only way to pass it is to promise that nobody has to follow it.