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Assigning students to schools to minimize both transportation costs and socioeconomic variation between schools

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  • Bouzarth, Elizabeth L.
  • Forrester, Richard
  • Hutson, Kevin R.
  • Reddoch, Lattie

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Several studies have found that students' academic achievement is as much determined by the socioeconomic composition of their school as their own socioeconomic status. In this paper we provide a methodology for assigning students to schools so as to balance the socioeconomic compositions of the schools while taking into consideration the total travel distance. Our technique utilizes a biobjective general 0–1 fractional program that is linearized into a mixed 0–1 linear program that can be submitted directly to a standard optimization package. We show how a parametrized model could be utilized to provide a spectrum of different possible assignments so that a decision maker can decide how to balance socioeconomic factors with transportation costs. As a test case for our approach we analyze data from the Greenville County School District in Greenville, South Carolina.

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  • Bouzarth, Elizabeth L. & Forrester, Richard & Hutson, Kevin R. & Reddoch, Lattie, 2018. "Assigning students to schools to minimize both transportation costs and socioeconomic variation between schools," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 1-8.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:soceps:v:64:y:2018:i:c:p:1-8
    DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2017.09.001
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