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[quote=Anonymous]according to  footnote 5 in the DME plan, "“At Risk” is a designation in D.C. code for students who fall into at least one of the following categories: in foster care, homeless, in families receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), in families receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance (SNAP), or are high school students who are more than one year over-age for their grade."

Interestingly, this creates a big incentive for parents to red-shirt their kids: the opportunity for priority in attending better-regarded high schools.  If I were undecided about whether to send a kid to kindergarten at age 5 or 6, my chances of getting him into Wilson in 9th grade as "at-risk" would be one of the things I'd factor in.  I raised this during the comment process but it doesn't seem to have been addressed.

Also, it probably would have made sense to consider kids "at risk" if they're not in foster care but if they had a substantiated allegation of abuse or neglect in the past year or something like that.  CFSA is removing fewer and fewer kids from their homes and providing more in-home services.  In many cases this is a great practice, but those kids are at risk too (in all honesty, relatively few of those kids have a high enough income not to be at risk in some other way, but it would be a better policy).

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