Committee on overcrowding in the Wilson feeder pattern

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about a task force to ferret out residency fraud at Wilson and in the Wilson feeder pattern? There are estimates that as many as ten percent of Wilson students in fact are Maryland resident. Root them out and DC would ease a lot of overcrowding.

DO you have any sources for these "estimates" beyond DCUM musings and super sleuths counting MD license plates?

The PG crowd is touchy today.

[Anonymous]

It would make logical sense to drop Hearst and Eaton from Wilson, as they are close to the east side of RCP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would make logical sense to drop Hearst and Eaton from Wilson, as they are close to the east side of RCP.

Good thing you aren’t on a boundary committee. You need to get a better map.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about a task force to ferret out residency fraud at Wilson and in the Wilson feeder pattern? There are estimates that as many as ten percent of Wilson students in fact are Maryland resident. Root them out and DC would ease a lot of overcrowding.

DO you have any sources for these "estimates" beyond DCUM musings and super sleuths counting MD license plates?

The PG crowd is touchy today.

Actually, I am in MoCo because after my initial experiences with DCPS, I wanted no part of Wilson. But the question remains valid, and unanswered, regardless of who is asking it.

[Anonymous]

Step 1 - Stop Grandfathered families that are not currently enrolled in Deal / Wilson from enrolling. [Crestwood / 16th St Heights]

Step 2 - Cut option for Bancroft to Deal and move it only to MacFarland

Step 3 - Move Oyster Adams feeder to MacFarland

Easy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would make logical sense to drop Hearst and Eaton from Wilson, as they are close to the east side of RCP.

Hi, Ward 4 Lafayette parent!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Step 1 - Stop Grandfathered families that are not currently enrolled in Deal / Wilson from enrolling. [Crestwood / 16th St Heights]

Step 2 - Cut option for Bancroft to Deal and move it only to MacFarland

Step 3 - Move Oyster Adams feeder to MacFarland

Easy

If you cut Bancroft from Deal you need to cut Oyster-Adams from Wilson and send it to Roosevelt (dual language).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Step 1 - Stop Grandfathered families that are not currently enrolled in Deal / Wilson from enrolling. [Crestwood / 16th St Heights]

Step 2 - Cut option for Bancroft to Deal and move it only to MacFarland

Step 3 - Move Oyster Adams feeder to MacFarland

Easy

What about the students who were grandfathered into Deal should we cut them too or live outofbounds/out of state and for some reason are still at Deal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Step 1 - Stop Grandfathered families that are not currently enrolled in Deal / Wilson from enrolling. [Crestwood / 16th St Heights]

Step 2 - Cut option for Bancroft to Deal and move it only to MacFarland

Step 3 - Move Oyster Adams feeder to MacFarland

Easy

Step 4 - Find a career other than elected politician.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Where is the space in Ward 3 for a charter HS?

The old Hardy school?

The reason Wilson crowding is such a conundrum is that there is no easy way to add capacity to any of the schools in the Wilson pyramid, including Wilson. Charters don't really have any more options than DCPS does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Step 1 - Stop Grandfathered families that are not currently enrolled in Deal / Wilson from enrolling. [Crestwood / 16th St Heights]

Step 2 - Cut option for Bancroft to Deal and move it only to MacFarland

Step 3 - Move Oyster Adams feeder to MacFarland

Easy

Step 4 - Find a career other than elected politician.

+1. Many of the options that make sense geographically would be political non-starters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's put some Rocketship and KIPP schools in Ward 3. They're supposed to be good enough for the rest of the city, so they're good enough for Upper Caucasia, right?

How does that help overcrowding at Wilson?

It would be a high school. If downtown and the Mayor think these charter high schools are good enough for the rest of the rest of the city, why are they not a solution for the Wilson boundary?

Yes, why not? Has the Mayor said anything about this as an option? You bring a good charter high school (eg, Latin) to a neighborhood with no charter options and families that already send kids to schools outside the ward for high school, you are likely to get some traction.

Where is the space in Ward 3 for a charter HS?

The present Duke Ellington site. It was the former Western high school. It would be a great site for another academic high school (which Ellington is not) and could do much to relieve Wilson overcrowding. Even though the location is not optimal for Ellington because it is not convenient for most of its students, I fear that Ellington is nowxthere for good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Where is the space in Ward 3 for a charter HS?

The old Hardy school?

The reason Wilson crowding is such a conundrum is that there is no easy way to add capacity to any of the schools in the Wilson pyramid, including Wilson. Charters don't really have any more options than DCPS does.

Charters can rent or buy space privately. It's not ideal but an office building or something could be made into a high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Where is the space in Ward 3 for a charter HS?

The old Hardy school?

The reason Wilson crowding is such a conundrum is that there is no easy way to add capacity to any of the schools in the Wilson pyramid, including Wilson. Charters don't really have any more options than DCPS does.

Charters can rent or buy space privately. It's not ideal but an office building or something could be made into a high school.

Charters get no capital budget from the DC government so they have to fund their real estate needs from their operating budget (the same per pupil allocation that public schools get). Charters can fund raise or borrow but they have to service their debts from their cash flow. DCPS schools also get occasional capital funding for renovations directly from the DC government, which also can issue bonds.

The law requires that the DC government make surplus school properties available to charters but it often has been the case that such properties are made available to well connected developer interests instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Where is the space in Ward 3 for a charter HS?

The old Hardy school?

The reason Wilson crowding is such a conundrum is that there is no easy way to add capacity to any of the schools in the Wilson pyramid, including Wilson. Charters don't really have any more options than DCPS does.

Charters can rent or buy space privately. It's not ideal but an office building or something could be made into a high school.

Nothing stops DCPS from renting or buying space. The Working Group hasn't been able to locate suitable space in Ward 3, even though they have been looking. One of the ideas was to see if an office building near Tenleytown could be used as overflow classrooms for Wilson.