But now I really think that neighborhood schools are best.

"Where do the kids go who don't have a neighborhood school?"

The western part of the district no longer has a neighborhood school.

One goal is to serve every child in his or her neighborhood school.

What they wanted was no change in their mostly white neighborhood schools.

"The families that move there will see it as their neighborhood school," she said.

But under the new system, students will actually have to apply to their neighborhood school.

And if she's not going to the neighborhood school, we have to apply.

There would be no way, he said, "to round up 46 kids and get them into their neighborhood schools."

There was no choice process available for students who wanted a better option than their neighborhood high school.