Advocate to Solve Ward 3 School Overcrowding

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few ways to reduce school overcrowding in Ward 3:

Reduce OOB slots and end sibling preference for OOB. OOB students must have at least a B- average and a clean disciplinary record to advance to the next level (middle, high school). OOB slots are a scarce resource and should go to the students who work hard and aren’t troublemakers.

Ferret out MD resident students who continue to be enrolled in DCPS. Our daughter graduated from former Wilson last year and said that it was common knowledge that a number of kids really lived in Maryland.

Approval of large development projects should take account of school and other infrastructure capacity in the ward. This used to be a requirement in the DC Comprehensive Plan but our pro-development mayor eliminated it. The provision should be restored. Developments above a certain size should be assessed a special school building fee.

A good place to start is to have some folks stand outside at the car lines and look for MD plates. Its very surprising the number of MD plates one sees driving to a DC school, day after day.

Sometimes parents are divorced and one lives in DC and one in MD. Or caretaker lives in MD?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few ways to reduce school overcrowding in Ward 3:

Reduce OOB slots and end sibling preference for OOB. OOB students must have at least a B- average and a clean disciplinary record to advance to the next level (middle, high school). OOB slots are a scarce resource and should go to the students who work hard and aren’t troublemakers.

Ferret out MD resident students who continue to be enrolled in DCPS. Our daughter graduated from former Wilson last year and said that it was common knowledge that a number of kids really lived in Maryland.

Approval of large development projects should take account of school and other infrastructure capacity in the ward. This used to be a requirement in the DC Comprehensive Plan but our pro-development mayor eliminated it. The provision should be restored. Developments above a certain size should be assessed a special school building fee.

A good place to start is to have some folks stand outside at the car lines and look for MD plates. Its very surprising the number of MD plates one sees driving to a DC school, day after day.

Sometimes parents are divorced and one lives in DC and one in MD. Or caretaker lives in MD?

Yes, but doesn't explain the continued high number of our of state students about which DCPS seems inclined to do little. There's a lot of residency scamming and grifting going on, and before school re-zoning decisions are made to take more neighborhoods out of the feeder patterns for Deal and ex-Wilson, wouldn't it be fairer to address the residency fraud?