Mayor Bowser to Make Education Policy and Personnel Announcement - Boundary Decision?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Still talking about weed. Kinda annoyed these reporters are focusing on this instead of schools...

Agreed. And then Relisha Rudd, and now trash collection delays.

I agree that those things were off topic, but frankly, they are also important. Learning how to manage municipal services and ensuring that children are not victimized on the city's watch are at least as important if not more important than making sure that everyone still gets to go to Deal.

[Anonymous]

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some of us with West as our IB school have also had feeder rights to Deal all along. What happens to us? that would seem to be considered grandfathering to me.

Hi neighbor. At West (most of us) have had geographic rights to Deal. Not feeder rights. There is a corner of the old boundary eat of Arkansas that never had Deal rights, and now much of the new boundary still doesn't.

[Anonymous]

It does not impact Eaton as Hardy is already an opened middle school. It only impacts kids that were IB for Deal and were going to be grandfathered for a few years after Macfarland opened. Now they stay until 2022 regardless of when Macfarland opens.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/bowser-announces-tweaks-to-dc-school-boundary-plan/2015/02/27/b5f33f34-be2f-11e4-bdfa-b8e8f594e6ee_story.html

Wow, congrats to Crestwood!

Do you mean 16th St Heights rather than Crestwood? They're talking about West now feeding to Deals, right? So, are they going to start busing the lucky ducks who are now an hour walk away from school instead of 20mn?

No, they are not talking about changing feeders. They are talking about extending a grandfathering. West will not feed to Deal.

Am I the only one actually watching/listening to this?

(FYI I'm responsible for half the posts in this thread - your own faithful DCUM live blogger)

some of us with West as our IB school have also had feeder rights to Deal all along. What happens to us? that would seem to be considered grandfathering to me.

I am PP (the live blogger). Sorry to get technical with you, but you are confusing geographical attendance with feeders. If you are IB for West then you have never had a feeder right to Deal. You have had a geographical attendance right, which the Gray plan removed. Your geographical right is now grandfathered until 2022. Regardless of where your kids attend elementary school (private, charter, DCPS), if you were IB for Deal in the year 2013, then you continue to be IB for Deal until 2022. This means that people can continue to buy/rent in Crestwood or 16 st H until 2022 and send their kids to Deal. After that, no.

This much is clear. What remains unclear to me is, as I wrote above, Eaton and other reassigned neighborhoods/schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It does not impact Eaton as Hardy is already an opened middle school. It only impacts kids that were IB for Deal and were going to be grandfathered for a few years after Macfarland opened. Now they stay until 2022 regardless of when Macfarland opens.

Your interpretation fits with the Post article: "new middle school".

But in the press conference she actually said "newly assigned middle school".

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:It does not impact Eaton as Hardy is already an opened middle school. It only impacts kids that were IB for Deal and were going to be grandfathered for a few years after Macfarland opened. Now they stay until 2022 regardless of when Macfarland opens.

Not to nitpick, okay, to nitpick, the previous plan didn't contain any grandfathering once MacFarland opened. That was part of our complaints because we didn't know when MacFarland would open and it would become our assigned school on day 1. It made planning impossible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

some of us with West as our IB school have also had feeder rights to Deal all along. What happens to us? that would seem to be considered grandfathering to me.

Hi neighbor. At West (most of us) have had geographic rights to Deal. Not feeder rights. There is a corner of the old boundary eat of Arkansas that never had Deal rights, and now much of the new boundary still doesn't.

Thanks, that is a helpful clarification. So what does this mean for us? we lost those geographic rights to the new McFarland - are we part of this 2022 "safe zone"? Thanks.

[Anonymous]

It should be your assigned school on day 1. You should continue going to Deal until then, but not a day longer.

And let's not pretend like we wouldn't know, at least a year in advance, when the school would actually open. No need to pretend like you'd just wake up one day and find your kids are walking to the wrong school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

some of us with West as our IB school have also had feeder rights to Deal all along. What happens to us? that would seem to be considered grandfathering to me.

Hi neighbor. At West (most of us) have had geographic rights to Deal. Not feeder rights. There is a corner of the old boundary eat of Arkansas that never had Deal rights, and now much of the new boundary still doesn't.

Thanks, that is a helpful clarification. So what does this mean for us? we lost those geographic rights to the new McFarland - are we part of this 2022 "safe zone"? Thanks.

Until 2022 you can choose between Deal and, when it opens, MacFarland.

[jsteele]

One more point regarding the 2022 grandfathering. The DME recommendations included a require boundary review in 2022. That's way that date makes sense. While on the face of it one might assume that Crestwood and 16th Street Heights will maintain access to Deal until 2022 and then change to MacFarland, the 2022 boundary review could theoretically change things to keep Deal access. Though, if MacFalrand is showing promise, there probably wouldn't be much interest in doing that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/bowser-announces-tweaks-to-dc-school-boundary-plan/2015/02/27/b5f33f34-be2f-11e4-bdfa-b8e8f594e6ee_story.html

Wow, congrats to Crestwood!

Do you mean 16th St Heights rather than Crestwood? They're talking about West now feeding to Deals, right? So, are they going to start busing the lucky ducks who are now an hour walk away from school instead of 20mn?

No, they are not talking about changing feeders. They are talking about extending a grandfathering. West will not feed to Deal.

Am I the only one actually watching/listening to this?

(FYI I'm responsible for half the posts in this thread - your own faithful DCUM live blogger)

some of us with West as our IB school have also had feeder rights to Deal all along. What happens to us? that would seem to be considered grandfathering to me.

I am PP (the live blogger). Sorry to get technical with you, but you are confusing geographical attendance with feeders. If you are IB for West then you have never had a feeder right to Deal. You have had a geographical attendance right, which the Gray plan removed. Your geographical right is now grandfathered until 2022. Regardless of where your kids attend elementary school (private, charter, DCPS), if you were IB for Deal in the year 2013, then you continue to be IB for Deal until 2022. This means that people can continue to buy/rent in Crestwood or 16 st H until 2022 and send their kids to Deal. After that, no.

This much is clear. What remains unclear to me is, as I wrote above, Eaton and other reassigned neighborhoods/schools.

Thanks, I am the PP and this is a very helpful clarification about the difference between geographic rights and feeder schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

some of us with West as our IB school have also had feeder rights to Deal all along. What happens to us? that would seem to be considered grandfathering to me.

Hi neighbor. At West (most of us) have had geographic rights to Deal. Not feeder rights. There is a corner of the old boundary eat of Arkansas that never had Deal rights, and now much of the new boundary still doesn't.

Thanks, that is a helpful clarification. So what does this mean for us? we lost those geographic rights to the new McFarland - are we part of this 2022 "safe zone"? Thanks.

I think it means dual rights between when MacFarland opens and 2022, but that is more speculation.

[Anonymous]

So eaton is still shut out from Deal. Oyster too.

[Anonymous]

Are you white and live west of the park? Then damn right you are.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Are you white and live west of the park? Then damn right you are.

Not helpful. What if you are black and live west of the park? No difference.