When will schools like Janney step up and do their fair share to take at-risk kids??

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Anonymous wrote:When they start forcing in bounds Janney kids to go to other schools. That'll be the day in DC.

What other schools, pray tell? Are there any schools even remotely close to that neighborhood that have room to spare?

Go look at how many OOB lottery spots Janney has recently given. My favorite is reference to the current bubble class of 2nd graders. They gave out 10 OOB lottery spots the year that class was in K - and made space for the assistant principal's child.

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All, there are OOB kids in every school in NW who come in through the lottery. EVERY SCHOOL.

If DC wanted to make those spots set aside for low income kids, they could do so. But they haven't. So until then, this is a silly argument. Neither Janney, nor any other school, can make decisions about who they enroll. There are boundary rules and a central lottery.

If this is important to you, take it up with city hall.

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Anonymous wrote:when rezoning takes place and OSSE creates space overage for at-risk set-aside for which schools do not meet a minimum threshold for % at risk based on IB enrollment. Politically volatile but practical and systematic. No individual school will do this independently and every "successful" school is already at or above capacity.

should add that DCPS needs to provide incentives for the schools to take on at-risk students and penalties for falling short.

In other words, you want at risk kids to be forced into crowded classrooms when every study in the world says smaller class size is better for at risk kids? Because these schools aren't going to get physically bigger.

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Only way: Forced busing.

Families of all colors with means will go to private; the rest will move out to suburbs.

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Anonymous wrote:Only way: Forced busing.

Families of all colors with means will go to private; the rest will move out to suburbs.

Leaving only at-risk kids at low-performing schools?

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Anonymous wrote:Only way: Forced busing.

Families of all colors with means will go to private; the rest will move out to suburbs.

Leaving only at-risk kids and making all schools low-performing schools?

Fixed it for you

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Anonymous wrote:Eaton has to take all kids from the new shelter set to open in the spring.
Eaton is 100% full, in fact in the temp trailers during Reno but still will have to take the homeless kids from the "ward 3" shelter.
Why cant janney, murch, & hearst all help as fellow responsible ward 3 schools?
Homeless kids actually have the right to attend any dcps school, so dont say "because the shelter is in the eaton boundary". And if ward 3 really wants to help the homeless kids than everyone should pool resources and do right by them. Not just mary cheh's usual target.

Homeless students can’t go wherever they want. They can stay in the school where they were enrolled before becoming homeless, or move schools to be closer to where they are staying now.

Yes, they can go wherever they want. And yes, they can stay at their "school of origin".

From the McKinney-Vento Act:

School Enrollment and Full Participation
Homeless children and youth must be enrolled in school immediately, even if they lack documents or have missed application or enrollment deadlines during any period of homelessness.[xvii]
SEAs and LEAs must develop, review, and revise policies to remove barriers to the identification, enrollment, and retention of homeless students in school, including barriers due to fees, fines, and absences.[xviii]
If a dispute arises over eligibility, school selection or enrollment, the child or youth must be immediately enrolled in the school in which the parent, guardian or unaccompanied youth seeks enrollment, pending resolution of the dispute, including all available appeals.[xix]
States must have procedures to ensure that homeless children and youth do not face barriers to accessing academic and extracurricular activities.[xx]

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When they start forcing in bounds Janney kids to go to other schools. That'll be the day in DC.

What other schools, pray tell? Are there any schools even remotely close to that neighborhood that have room to spare?

I know kids who got into Key OOB recently.

Key taking more OOB kids is absurd. They already have TWO HOLE GRADES in trailers!

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Anonymous wrote:If the city really wants to do that, then they need to tweak the lottery to give kids from disadvantaged families a preference. As they haven't done that, there's no way to make this happen.

Unfortunately, that wouldn't make room for 80 kids in school sthat takes next to zero from the lottery. You can't keep stuffing the same clown car. You have to make more cars that people want.

well, 12% of the school is OOB. make that all disadvantaged kids, and there you go.

Maybe in the 4th grade but no way is 12% OOB in K. I would guess its zero.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the city really wants to do that, then they need to tweak the lottery to give kids from disadvantaged families a preference. As they haven't done that, there's no way to make this happen.

Unfortunately, that wouldn't make room for 80 kids in school sthat takes next to zero from the lottery. You can't keep stuffing the same clown car. You have to make more cars that people want.

well, 12% of the school is OOB. make that all disadvantaged kids, and there you go.

Maybe in the 4th grade but no way is 12% OOB in K. I would guess its zero.

The bubble 2nd grade has at least 10 OOB kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the city really wants to do that, then they need to tweak the lottery to give kids from disadvantaged families a preference. As they haven't done that, there's no way to make this happen.

Unfortunately, that wouldn't make room for 80 kids in school sthat takes next to zero from the lottery. You can't keep stuffing the same clown car. You have to make more cars that people want.

well, 12% of the school is OOB. make that all disadvantaged kids, and there you go.

Maybe in the 4th grade but no way is 12% OOB in K. I would guess its zero.

The bubble 2nd grade has at least 10 OOB kids.

I know a family that has a PreKer at Janney - and a 6th grader enrolled not at Deal - but based on their Maryland address.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the city really wants to do that, then they need to tweak the lottery to give kids from disadvantaged families a preference. As they haven't done that, there's no way to make this happen.

Unfortunately, that wouldn't make room for 80 kids in school sthat takes next to zero from the lottery. You can't keep stuffing the same clown car. You have to make more cars that people want.

well, 12% of the school is OOB. make that all disadvantaged kids, and there you go.

Maybe in the 4th grade but no way is 12% OOB in K. I would guess its zero.

The bubble 2nd grade has at least 10 OOB kids.

I know a family that has a PreKer at Janney - and a 6th grader enrolled not at Deal - but based on their Maryland address.

When did you report them for residency fraud?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the city really wants to do that, then they need to tweak the lottery to give kids from disadvantaged families a preference. As they haven't done that, there's no way to make this happen.

Unfortunately, that wouldn't make room for 80 kids in school sthat takes next to zero from the lottery. You can't keep stuffing the same clown car. You have to make more cars that people want.

well, 12% of the school is OOB. make that all disadvantaged kids, and there you go.

Maybe in the 4th grade but no way is 12% OOB in K. I would guess its zero.

The bubble 2nd grade has at least 10 OOB kids.

I know a family that has a PreKer at Janney - and a 6th grader enrolled not at Deal - but based on their Maryland address.

When did you report them for residency fraud?

They moved over the summer after they registered. Free PreK! It will be interesting what they do next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only way: Forced busing.

Families of all colors with means will go to private; the rest will move out to suburbs.

Nothing has changed.

[Anonymous]

Situation: Child at janney got in OOB lottery. Child is not “at risk”. Has a younger sibling. Should younger sibling have priority in the lottery over at-risk students?