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[quote=Anonymous]The problem in DC is that successful integration will require a lot of time. Right now, the need for a better school placement dwarfs the capacity of the quality schools. The number of good schools is slowly spreading, with charters being a part of that, so DC is on the right track. The 10% OOB set-aside should prove to be effective policy for the kids who get to take advantage of it. But at that rate, it will still be years and years before most students in lame schools get to escape for a good one. (It doesn't help that most of the high-quality schools where the benefit would be large are already way overcrowded.) We've already seen what happens if you force rapid integration by quickly bringing in large numbers of new students into the more successful schools: the disruption is high and many of the preexisting families just leave. The high disruption can turn a successful school into an unsuccessful one.[/quote]
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