Proximity Preference 0.5 mile for charters
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Anonymous
Sorry, your convenience and your traffic challenges are NOT reasons to change a basic rule of equal opportunity to all applicants that charter rules in DC were founded upon. I understand why you want it, but it is wrong in so many ways for the Mayor to propose it and for it to be passed. I hope it gets nixed again, that would be the right thing to do. |
Anonymous
Can you see how some W7 and W8 residents would also want this? Maybe they want a KIPP. They get matched to KIPP Connect (W5), but not KIPP Leap (W7) because that's how their lottery draw places them. Meanwhile a W5 resident gets matched to KIPP Leap but not KIPP Connect. Presumably the programmatic offerings are the same, but we've got two families criss-crossing the city. |
Anonymous
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There are a few blocks between Illinois and Upshur that would meet the test for CMi. >.5 mi from Barnard and Bruce Munroe but < .5 mi from CMI.
More for Yu Ying. I can see people targeting those blocks to get preference to their preferred school. .
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Anonymous
Great, give "wealthy" families (households where parents earn six figures?) incentives to stay in the city because, when they bail from public schools for privates and the burbs, poor kids lose out. The "least resourced" benefit when DC expands its tax base by hanging on to well-heeled parent tax payers, enabling a municipality to afford better services for the poor. DC charters with long waiting lists have buildings in neighborhoods that would benefit from investment by home buyers seeking good schools. What disadvantages poor kids in schools is myopic thinking about how to help them. |
Anonymous
Fine, shut them out, putting real pressure on politicians and DCPS and DCPC to dramatically improve neighborhood schools. Something's gotta give in this hair-brained system. |
Anonymous
| I think this proposal is good intentioned but wrong headed. I live in Bloomingdale and I'm more than 1/2 mile from Langley. But there are no charters within 1/2 mile. I don't think we should be at a disadvantage in getting into a charter that's still walking distance, say 1 mile, from our house. This proposal will have unintended consequences and remove the feeling of "fairness" from the lottery. |
Anonymous
People seem to be forgetting that the charter school needs to offer this preference. I don't know enough about CMI, but I'm confident YY would never offer it. |
Anonymous
My hunch is that this preference has a narrow enough scope that any effects will be fairly limited, due to not many addresses meeting the criteria, charter schools would have to opt in, parents would have to be interested in that particular charter AND have the means and luck to buy on that particular block, etc. I wish it would have a significant effect on traffic, but I don't think it will have much impact there either, unfortunately. Now if they broadened the scope somewhat--say, > 0.5 miles from DCPS IB school but < 1 mile from a charter--that would be cause for more concern, obviously. But the way they've done it seems to prioritize walkability for the few families who are lucky enough to live within walking distance to the closest school, whether DCPS or charter. |
Anonymous
| Just saying. There definitely would be some in bound for Seaton that are way closer to Mundo Verde. But, who knows if MV would allow this preference. |
Anonymous
Because it doesn't work for all families. This proposal will help the (few) families who are far from their inbound DCPS and close to a good charter (who, in some cases, took over the building of what used to be the neighborhood DCPS). It may help with neighborhood/charter relations where the neighborhood resents the charter families who clog their streets. It may help with racial diversity at schools like YY, ITS, others in Ward 2 or 5 who sit in a majority-minority neighborhood but draw a lot of white kids from all over the city. But . . . honestly, I think this proposal will not affect that many seats in the schools that want to opt in. Neighborhood preference will likely go below sibling preference. I think it's more of a PR effort by the mayor, trying to throw a bone to the neighborhoods whose inbound school was closed in the past 5 years and who are PO'ed about traffic from a charter school that took its place. For some of those schools in Ward 5 like ITS there is a racial dynamic as well -- a neighborhood school which served almost all black students (Shaed) was closed and now a charter school that serves a lot of white kids sits in that building. The families across the street can't send their kids/grandkids to the charter but they have people double parking in front of their house twice a day. I think Bowser is responding to complaints from those people. |
Anonymous
NP, who is not affected by the proposal at all in Ward 6. I think you are wrong. I think the PP's convenience, to be more specific, PP's child's convenience and others similarly situated are exactly the reason IN FAVOR of the preference. The by-right school is not walkable and therefore getting the same right to walkability by a preference to a nearby charter is worthwhile, exactly for the convenience factor and so an already disadvantaged child (in terms of walkability to by-right school) isn't further inconvenienced because of traffic challenges. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
This proposal doesn't solve school "deserts" like it seems you are in. It is about access to walkable schools when there is one. |
Anonymous
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Guys, my understanding is that this is being done at the request of some ward 7 and 8 charter schools that have been requesting this for years and are expected to invoke this as soon as they are able. My understanding is that leadership at "hrcs"s are philosophically opposed to neighborhood preference and have always opposed this, which is why it is optional and not forced on any charters.
Anyone at LAMB YY etc can confirm this? Presumably school admins are making statements about whether they will or will not make use of this option. |
Anonymous
It is premature. Council has not yet approved this. |