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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][b]"I have maintained all along that I cannot support a plan that moves students from higher performing schools to lower performing ones."[/b]

So, "never", as he's maintained from the start.  But he took 700 words to say it so it makes him look smart to some people.[/quote]

Look at this part more closely:

"In order to secure the confidence of our public school families, we must focus on the issue of school quality in tandem with the proposed recommendations so that all our students – regardless of where they live – can succeed.  Among other things, we must work with the community to create open and transparent school-specific quality improvement plans.  Much more work is needed in this regard."

He is saying that if you want to move families to lower performing schools, you must work with them to address the issue of school quality. He wants school-specific quality improvement plans. He will support moving students to a lower performing school if the school has a realistic chance of improving. That's the only realistic way to address the chicken and egg problem of getting high-performing kids into a lower-performing school.

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Thats nice (though it makes the whole proposal dependent on a lot of moving parts of DCPS IIUC) but it is not consistent with

" I cannot support a plan that moves students from higher performing schools to lower performing ones."

A lower performing school with a plan is still a lower performing school.  [/quote]

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