In May 2005, Dr. Thomas Payzant, the Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools (BPS), recommended to the public that the existing school choice mechanism in Boston (henceforth the Boston mechanism) should be replaced with an alternative mechanism that removes the incentives to "game the system" that handicapped the Boston mechanism. The mechanism had been used to assign over 75,000 students to school from July 1999 until July 2005. Following Payzant's recommendation, the Boston School Committee voted to replace the mechanism in July 2005 and adopt a new mechanism for the 2005-2006 school year.
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