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[quote=Anonymous]OP -- I said PTA meaning fully parent-led and open to anyone who chooses to partake. Of course, only the bus beneficiaries would pay.  I was curious to see if any schools had surveyed parents and had tried but failed or succeeded (not trying to recreate the wheel).

My PK4 daughter matched at Oyster as Spanish dominant (test pending).  My son is in first grade and matched at HD Cooke (8th choice).  We initially thought we would live near there in Mount Pleasant or Crestwood, so fairly close to Oyster (son is waitlisted #2 and is also Spanish dominant), He is #8 at Marie Reed and #12 at Bancroft.

But looking at house prices, we are now seeing that we would we way better off buying in NE.  Unfortunately, all the charters around there are now in the 50s, 60s in their waitlists. My son is also #1 at Breakthrough, which is also far  -and my daughter is #68 there as well (post lottery app), so doubt we can have them there together.  No way I can afford anything WOTP, unless it was a fixer upper and I don't have that kind of time or patience.  If we can get a house up near Takoma, Sixteenth St. Heights, Brightwood Park, the commute would be better, but we've really liked the areas around Brookland the best.

The other option would be to  "send" my daughter (via online learning) to Oyster for PK 4 just this year and try to find something in Capitol Hill zoned for Maury, JO Wilson, Watkins, LT or Maury, send my son there as IB and switch my daughter next year.  However, I really want them to keep up the bilingual education which they've had before now.  My husband and I are both native speakers, so this is pretty important to us. I didn't do enough research on charters before so did not list the obvious: Stokes, MV, LAMB.  I feel dumb, but the move was sort of unexpected.

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