magnet continued

Dean: Within the grant application are we mandated to do certain things? A previous superintendent identified that some of the mandates were fictitious. Magnets are a voluntary means of desegregating. The mandate is coming from the grant?

Kate: My understanding - deseg rule -- we are clearly out of compliance. So are other districts around us. We are clearly out of compliance. We are under direction for a number of years We are audited. Everytime we make a move they monitor and we are asked to respond with all evidence to make sure we have not intentionally racially isolated students.

Second mandate is from the federal level. We could have changed boundaries, we could have done nothing, we could do voluntary efforts. It was the method (voluntary) selected in MN.

NW surburban helps get grant funding for Magnet schools so that we can fund magnet schools. It was a dictate of the federal grant that led us to place schools in racially isolated areas. So, they had to select sites that are racially isolated.

Dean: My understanding is that if we do not intentionally move students/boundaries/etc... it does not penalize us if we do nothing. The magnet grant might have its own criteria, but wanted to be clear that we are not under an order to do anything. As long as we do not intentionally deseg.