School Choice with Hybrid Schedules

Mustafa Oğuz Afacan,William Harris,Umut Dur

doi:10.3390/g12020037

Abstract

During the pandemic, school districts have adopted hybrid schedules to continue the education of the students while maintaining social distance. In a hybrid schedule, students in the same classroom are usually divided into two groups and students only in the same group can physically attend class together two days a week. School districts do not take preferences of the students/parents over the days they would like to come to school into account during this procedure. In this paper, we propose a solution that divides students into groups based on their preferences. Our solution respects the number of classrooms initially reserved for each grade and enables possible efficiency gains by swapping classrooms across grades. Moreover, when there are two alternative schedules provided for students, our solution is immune to preference manipulations.

Highlights

We introduce choice into hybrid schedules provided by school districts during the pandemic
School choice with hybrid schedules is based on the standard school choice problem introduced by Balinski and Sönmez [8] and Abdulkadiroğlu and Sönmez [9]
We show that when | M| = 2 generalized deferred acceptance (DA) cannot be manipulated by a student

Summary

Introduction

Under online learning, some parents need to stay home to watch younger children and assist them with accessing courses and content. In the AM/PM hybrid model, students are divided into two cohorts where one cohort attends school in the morning and the other in the afternoon four days a week. The A/B hybrid model divides students into two groups, where each cohort attends in person two to three times a week for a full day. The three week rotation model divides students into three cohorts. Students in each cohort attend school in-person for one week and virtually for two. School districts usually run their chosen plan by placing students into cohorts without providing choice. My55y6 and https://www.mcdowell.k12.nc.us/news/1685914/2020-2021-a-b-schedule, accessed on 20 April 2021). Some school districts, including Herricks and Hilliard City, divide students alphabetically into cohorts. Mid-Del Public School a McDowell County School District a Madison City Schools b

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