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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS has no planning. David Catania is trying to get funding for an Office of Planning with DCPS included in this year's budget.

The facilities planning that DCPS does is hardly worthy of the name "planning." A decision is made about which schools to close and which schools to keep open (using methodology known only to a few insiders, certainly not using demographics or any other planning tools.) Once it is decided that a building is to remain open, all facilities decisions are made based on the building -- what does the building need? -- rather than what does the school need, what does the community need, what does the system need.

As for demographics informing boundary decisions, DCPS has not redrawn boundaries in over 40 years, there is no one in the system with expertise.

What you have to keep in mind is that DCPS has approximately one quarter the number of students it had 50 years ago. For the past 50 years, the system has done nothing but shed students and shutter buildings. It still has over 50% more space than it needs for its current enrollment. [b]The enrollment growth and resultant crowding of the past five years is something that DCPS is institutionally unprepared to deal with[/b].[/quote]

Yes, and keep in mind it's not across-the-board growth, it's highly specific to upper NW.  DCPS schools elsewhere in the city continue to languish.  The exponential growth is almost completely confined to the charter sector.  [/quote]

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