> District officials expected some pushback when they released the new school schedule on a Thursday night in December, with plans to implement in the fall of 2018.
The first round of applications for schools in Boston is January, so it's only a few weeks (over Christmas!) for families to figure out if they can make it work, if it's worth moving schools, which school they want to move to, etc. (Your chances of getting into your first choice school decline rapidly after the first round).