Since last October, an Advisory Committee of parents, community members, and other experts have been working with the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education to review student assignment policies, DCPS school boundaries, and feeder patterns. After a ten month process reviewing data, information, policies and practices as well as listening to parents and community members and discussing this input in depth, the Advisory Committee came to understand the challenges to the current student assignment system for the city and its families and developed recommendations for how to update and revise current student assignment policies, including DCPS school boundaries.