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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was at a mtg at Woodson and the rumblings were about Woodson's potential increased enrollment for next year.  The influx if students are supposedly are to matriculate from Spingarn.  I would like to pause but if our charter schools are public schools then [b]why isn't Friendship and/or Chavez available choices?[/b]

Closing of Spingarn due to low enrollment is okay with me and to utilize the campus for the upcoming trolley operation makes damn good sense.  But to shuttle kids past perfectly good charter schools with good facilities and academic programs is horrendous.

Also, if I am able to walk to Spingarn then it is pretty likely that I can walk to Eastern but there's no discussion about Eastern absorbing some of Spingarn's population.  Just saying Ward 5 students shipped off to a Ward 7 school but many are closer neighborhood wise to a Ward 6 school.  Is it because Ward 7 is a poor cluster and Ward 6 is a Hill East cluster?

Let me grab a cup of coffee, so we can discuss.  Be right back![/quote]

Assuming they're not oversubscribed, they are available choices.  All parents have to do in that case is enroll.  The reason that DCPS isn't automatically re-assigning to those schools, is because they're charters and DCPS has to give the students a new neighborhood option.  If I were a parent at Springarn, I would absolutely check out both of those options as well as Eastern.

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