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Yeah the gentrification over there is already underway - have you seen all the houses that just got demolished on Emerson?

I think the analysis would be tough, it's not like you'd have a control group of kids that should be bussed but didn't get bussed. It's hard to do analytics on this kind of stuff where to have a control group, you're basically doing a social experiment.

This is why I keep arguing that this is a *political* challenge more than a financial or educational one. The argument to build the school is political and doing this lease certificate to jam it through doesn't help the political cause of convincing the town why it's necessary.

With that said, I do think kids should all be able to walk to school but perhaps I lack enough knowledge about who walks and who doesn't. I live by Lincoln where we all walk and am a little blind to the rest of the town.

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