Bowser and Catania reiterate intent to stop/delay school boundary changes

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Anonymous wrote:How is it that they don't understand that the horse will be out of the barn when the new lottery opens in December?

The council should demand DME Smith's resignation now. Hardly any of the council members support this -- not just the mayoral candidates.

No DC Council EVER has supported school boundary changes. 40 years of kicking the can down the road. Not a profile in courage.

In DC, it generally takes courage to stand up to a harebrained plan. I'm glad to see some council members finally joining Catania in doing just that.

There's nothing harebrained about it. Besides the set-asides, it's a stock standard school assignment policy. You get one elementary, one ms and one hs. Not the crazy quilt mess that we currently have, dual zones, schools zoned differently than they neighborhoods they sit in, too big zones, too small zones. It's nuts.

It is harebrained, particularly the set-asides which are poorly defined, unworkable in practice and may have the effect of making overcrowded schools more uncrowded. The boundary proposals are still rife with special deals and with some boundary areas so gerrymandered that they would make a Texas legislator blush.