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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"So we wondered: can charter schools, which base admissions entirely on a lottery instead of a student’s address, better mix at-risk students than DCPS and create more egalitarian schools? Our answer is a qualified no."

I'm a little confused here...how is having fewer at risk students in areas where at risk students make up 75% of students actually LESS diverse/egalitarian?  If the question is, do charter schools make the school system as a whole (DCPS AND Charter) less segregated, it seems likely the answer is no (though this data isn't going to answer that question).  But if the question is are charters more diverse than DCPS - I'm not sure a lower percentage of at risk kids necessarily means the answer is now when you're comparing it to schools with majority at risk populations.  Wouldn't greater diversity/less segregation mean more not-at-risk kids in those cases?  I think this is not the comparison to be making with this data.  I think you'd need a whole different set of data.  I'm not sure what the data would have looked like if they'd seen what they wanted to see?[/quote]

Outside of WoTP DCPS schools, charters are concentrating nearly all of the non-"at-risk" kids. Thereby ensuring that the remaining DCPS continue to remain segregated and filled with "at-risk" students. Hence, charters are not helping de-segregation, but rather giving middle and upper-middle SES families a "sanctuary" from the DCPS.[/quote]

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