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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The solution isn't just to cut out the east of the park neighborhoods (it's not fair to them - they bought their houses in reliance on the Deal/Wilson right, just like you). And besides, they are a very small portion of the deal/Wilson enrollment.
The only way to create a second (or third) "good" DCPS neighborhood hs option is to split the current wealthy white deal/Wilson population more equally with another feeder pattern.  For example, rezone half of Wilson (upper ward 4), including Lafayette, into Coolidge.  That will become a high performing high school from day 1.  The rich white kids from WOTP won't suffer, and the less advantaged eotp families [b]will finally have a decent chance[/b].
Then, leave the NW neighborhoods south of there, that also traditionally fed into Wilson, at Wilson, and make Roosevelt a magnet/specialty foreign language school that is attractive to the whole city, including students from Adams, Bancroft and Oyster.
Building nice buildings is not enough, and arbitrarily removing families' right to attend Wilson and Deal is unfair unless you give them an equally good option. For this you need socioeconomic and racial diversity to increase the good options for more families.[/quote]

There is not enough space at Coolidge for Lafayette. [/quote]

A decent chance at what? Does sending "less advantaged kids" to school with rich white kids improve outcomes academically for those "less advantaged kids".  I thought not, the DC school voucher evaluation showed that.   [/quote]

Do you mean this report?  https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/96686/the_effect_of_the_dc_school_voucher_program_on_college_enrollment_1.pdf
I think the conclusions are narrower than you suggest - it is only evaluating the benefit of the voucher, not enrollment specifically in economically and racially diverse schools, akin to Wilson.  Perhaps kids in the study used these vouchers to enroll in small parochial schools in poor neighborhoods, for example.  I'm guessing they were not all able to enroll in the pricier DC privates.[/quote]

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