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[quote=Anonymous]hey, it is a worthwhile issue that DCPCSB approves charters and then lets them locate in areas where they could serve a mixed, gentrifying population, but somehow serve almost entirely a gentrifying population.  Not that gentrifiers' kids don't need schools, but I hardly see the PCSB approving schools at this point that would say:

We would like to use a niche model that has a tendency to attract attention from gentrifier parents who do not feel comfortable with local DCPS or other charters. We will not locate where charter demand is exploding/the nearly 100 percent segregated eastern DC where our founders would never want to live, but instead within walking distance of several DCPS Title I schools we do not want to attend in Ward 4 or 5 where our founders' friends and families live.

I tend to think a big part of it is that there are relatively large buildings that either are or have been schools that are relatively gettable in Ward 4 and 5. I have no idea what competition there is for buildings in Wards 7 or 8.[/quote]

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