What was the purpose of limiting the student enrollment at a magnet or feeder school to the district-wide average and how will that purpose be met without use of that standard?
Under the prior regulations, the district-wide average was used as part of the standard for evaluating whether a voluntary desegregation plan was adequate under Title VI, to ensure that the establishment of magnet schools under the MSAP did not significantly increase minority group isolation in other project schools. Such a significant increase of minority group isolation in other project schools continues to be an important concern under the MSAP. Therefore, in the absence of this standard, the Department will determine on a case-by-case basis whether the voluntary plans are adequate under Title VI and whether the proposed magnet schools will reduce, eliminate, or prevent minority group isolation within the period of the grant award, for the purposes of sections 280.2(b) and 280.20(g). This will include an examination of the factual basis for any proposed increases in minority enrollment at district schools rather than using the absolute district-wide percentage limitation found in th
