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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only way school overcrowding will change is if boundaries are moved. Since the SBOE has no power to do that, leave it to the Mayor to deal with it. [/quote]

I recommend this article that carefully dissects the Office of Planning demographic projections and how it relates to school capacity: 
https://ggwash.org/view/71802/can-dcps-survive-the-coming-enrollment-surge

Short version: in a decade, every school west of the Anacostia is going to be at or above capacity, the schools west of Rock Creek will be a combined 2500 seats short. No amount of boundary-shifting increases the number of seats.

In 2019 there was something called the Crowding Working Group that looked into this, they recommended a new high school, a new middle school, and two new elementary schools west of Rock Creek. [/quote]

Thanks for sharing.  A couple of interesting takeaways.

[i]DCPS schools are profoundly unequal in terms of their physical condition and amenities, the opportunities they offer students, and their outcomes. By allowing students to attend a school of their choosing rather than their in-boundary school, DCPS has been able to avoid addressing that inequality.

The shear number of schools with projected undercapacity means that almost every school boundary will have to be redrawn. It may not be possible to draw boundaries for each school that include the school building.[/i][/quote]

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