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[quote=Anonymous]From WUSA9:

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Saturday, the District's mayoral candidates talked more on axing the announced School Boundaries Plan announced by Mayor Vince Gray last week.

Talking to WUSA9 after her Town Hall at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Hill Crest Saturday, Democratic candidate Muriel Bowser said, "I'm concerned about drawing lines that separate our communities by our geography. My plan is to focus on where we need help the most and that's in middle school, in middle school grades and how we transform four middle schools across the district by 2020."

Once her administration takes office is when Bowser said she and her staff would start on their own plan.

Bowser immediately came out against Mayor Gray's new School Boundaries Plan writing in a statement that she could not accept the recommendations. One of the two mayoral candidates running in the Independent ticket, David Catania, also expressed grievances against the Boundaries Plan but said Saturday, he would delay it at least a year.

"Giving us another year will allow us to create school improvement plans for those schools that are perceived as lower performers. And at the same time, I'm looking for ways to ensure that parents have additive rights and not subtractive rights. In other words, giving them and making sure they maintain access to the schools we have now while at the same time, improving the schools where we might want them to send our children," said Catania.

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As I read their quotes, they both seem to be sticking to their stories, and maybe even "doubling down" to quote a prior characterization of Mayor Gray and the DME in trying to push changes through by January.  Bowser says she doesn't want city schools divided by geography and sees the better plan as funding transformation of 4 middle schools over the next 6 years.  Catania wants to delay things "at least" one year until school improvement plans are in place, AND he wants to ways to give parents "additive rights and not subtractive rights".  Sounds like an extended dual access right to Deal and Wilson might be on his mind until other schools are improved.  [/quote]

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