http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-dc-schools-can-ward-off-the-big-flip/2014/01/24/90548788-8479-11e3-9dd4-e7278db80d86_story.html
So what I gathered from this article is that DCPS has decided that they don't want to fight the battle with Ward 3 over moving to a SF model but that they are going to try to force it on all the higher SES neighborhoods EOTP---i.e., force all EOTP parents to attend a school that is at least 50% FARMS by economic gerrymandering of school populations and elimination of the right to attend your closest IB school. AND, because they have figured out that higher SES EOTP parents will just decamp to charters if forced to attend a school that is 50% FARMS and over---they want to force economic gerrymandering onto the charter school system as well.
I love the fundamental assumption of the consultants that "maximizing socioeconomic integration" is a "shared civic goal." It may be the goal of the consultants---but to assume that it is also the goal of everyone who lives in the neighborhoods identified in the article is just Big Brother arrogance. Rather---what they are really saying is "Hey, educated, involved parents EOTP---we advocate foreclosing all of your public and charter educational options in an attempt to force you into currently failing schools and use you, your parental involvement, and your children as the guinea pigs in our personal vision of a socially-engineered utopia."
From WaPo article: The first strategy we propose is to create controlled-choice zones in strategic parts of the city (namely, Capitol Hill, Columbia Heights, Mount Pleasant, Adams Morgan, Dupont/Logan Circle and Petworth). In these neighborhoods, school attendance zones would eventually go away, as they have in a number of other districts across the country that use the controlled-choice model. Parents would express preferences among a cluster of schools, and an algorithm would make matches by balancing personal preferences with the shared civic goal of maximizing socioeconomic integration. Ideally, this list of options would include both district schools and public charter schools. Neighborhood schools in these zones that are disproportionately low-income would be reformed as magnet schools with attractive educational programs and themes to appeal to more middle-income families. Because all of the school options would be in the general neighborhood, no one would be forced to trek across town.
The second strategy we propose is to allow public charter schools and magnet schools to use weighted lotteries to create or maintain socioeconomic diversity. With a weighted lottery, charter schools could ensure that their proportion of poor students served never drops below 50 percent, even if a large number of middle-class families enters the lottery.