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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. The commentariat will flood this with negative responses, but low-income students should get into any DCPS. To me that means you get a surpassing advantage to get any lottery-accessible seat if you have [X] to indicate your low income, e.g., housing vouchers, SNAP, WIC, tax returns - whatever DC uses to do this, preferably without having to have people check a box on the lottery sign up saying "YES I AM POOR HAVE PITY."

If Janney is full of Ward 8 students, so be it.[/quote]

I like it - this is how they do it in San Francisco, where there are no by-right schools and the whole thing is a lottery -- kids who live in the poorest areas get preference. (I know this bc one of our (wealthy) friends gamed the system by moving into a poor area for the lottery year. It worked -- they got into their top choice.)[/quote]

Yes, and San Francisco public schools are now more segregated than ever before.
http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2015-02/as-parents-get-more-choice-sf-schools-resegregate
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