Ward 6 parents request to Catania and Henderson on Middle Schools
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Anonymous
| i don't think charters can have neighborhood preference by law, am i wrong? |
Anonymous
| Neighborhood preference is not an enumerated preference in the Charter Reform Act. |
Anonymous
| Right. Obviously Tommy Wells was gauging interest in changing the status quo. The DME seems interested in more cooperation between the sectors as well. |
Anonymous
Thank you poster! I don't think we have ever changed a law since the founding of this great land of ours. Good thing you schooled me... Oh wait... |
Anonymous
classy response. thanks for keeping it civil...oh wait if the hill wants to change the law just for THEM, i would be interested to see how they can write into the law that their zip code or whatever gets preference for city wide charter schools. |
Anonymous
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DCPS can open a school, or re-make a current school into a charter. It would be funded and in the DCPS portfolio, but separate to a large degree from DCPS bureaucracy. It could be non-union and have longer school days and other innovative things. AND, it could have neighborhood preference.
This is what I believe Tommy Wells was speaking to, and this is what the Chancellor has floated. |