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[quote=jsteele]I think that it is likely that you are giving DCPS too much credit in suggesting that there is a realistic long term plan at all. I suspect that rather than a long term strategy, DCPS is implementing short term tactics aimed at putting out today's fire.

At one time, improvement of the schools was supposed to be the carrot that attracted families to the city (or motivated those already here to stay). You are suggesting that this relationship is reversed and new and current families will drive school improvement. The flaw in this theory is -- as the previous poster suggests -- the existence of Charter Schools. The new and existing families are more likely to enter Charter lotteries than be agents of change in their local DCPS (with some notable exceptions).

As the number of successful charters increases, I think the poorly performing schools will only get worse as any motivated parents send their kids elsewhere. These schools will likely be closed before too long. Someone else in these forums has predicted that DCPS will shrink to Wards 2 and 3 and a few other outposts. Charters will serve the rest. I think that may be a correct prediction.
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